Note note 21 — ANALYSIS OF THE PHENOMENA OF THE HUMAN MIND James Mill
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21 Thirst is a sensation of the fauces and of the stomach; it is also a feeling of the body generally, due to a deficiency of water in the blood. It is also caused by an excess of saline ingredients in the system. In like manner, a distinction is to be drawn between Inanition, from deficiency of nutritive material in the body, and Hunger, or the state of the stomach preparatory to the act of eating. The two states must in a great measure concur: yet they may be distinct.
The account of the organic states given in this chapter would have come in appropriately under Sensation—B.