The oeconomy of health, or, A medical essay : containing new and familiar instructions for the attainment of health, happiness and longevity, in which the nature of the human mind is accurately investigated, and its union and connexion with the body systematically explained / by Andrew Harper.

  • Harper, Andrew, -1790.
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[1789]
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Credit: The oeconomy of health, or, A medical essay : containing new and familiar instructions for the attainment of health, happiness and longevity, in which the nature of the human mind is accurately investigated, and its union and connexion with the body systematically explained / by Andrew Harper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Thus, Anger proceeds from violent AgU tations. Fear is produced by fuch as are ftrong and quick, Joy arifes from vivid, and Grief from deep Impreffions. Hope is the Refult of foft and agreeable Emo- tions* Which Circumftance proves in the cleareft Manner, that the Enjoyments of I^ife; infinitely furpafs the Miferies of it, jfince Hope, by being conftantly in Exercife, becomes habitual, and never leaves the Mind, except for very Ihort and almoft im- perceptible Intervals. This Argument yields a good LdVon for Patience and Con- tentment i» every pofllble Situation. Love, the Miftrefs of the Mind, differs from all the reft. It is clofely interwoven with the Animal Frame, and draws its Impulfe (of all others the moft irrefiftible) from Springs which a6fc, within, as well as from Objeds Hhat excit:;* without. ' ' ' • - - ^;Images, which prefent to the Mind, Beauty, Harinony, and Symmetry, produce plealing