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If after this hot fit of fever all the parts, which had acquired too great irritability, or associability, regain their natural degree of it; the disease is removed, and health restored.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

These four faculties of the sensorium during their inactive state are termed irritability, sensibility, voluntarity, and associability; in their active state they are termed as above, irritation, sensation, volition, association.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

A good memory, whether natural or acquired, belongs to quick and vivid associability and revivability rather than to mere inherent and perpetual physiological record making.

From Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget by Loisette, A. (Alphonse)

This last kind of fever recurs less frequently than the other, as it is a disease only of those of the temperament of associability, as mentioned in Sect.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

If the exhaustion of sensorial power during the hot fit of fever only reduces the quantity of irritability and associability to its natural standard, the fever is cured, not being liable to return.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus