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.

Date:
[1785?]
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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 Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    other Words, an ex ten five, and well chofen Fund of Ideas. This is a Refource which invigorates and exalts the Mind, expands the Reafon, fur- nifhes the Aids of Philofophy, and fupplies an inexhauftible Store of different Thoughts and various Imagery. But no particular Management, nor any Mode of Accefs or immediate Application whatever to the Mind, can counteract the Difadvantages of an unhealthy and infirm Habit of Body. Pain muft necefiarily four the Temper, and make it hafty, morofe and irafcible. Relaxation creates Peevifh- nefs and Imbecillity, and renders the Mind irritable, timid, too fufceptible of every Impreflion, and liable to Mifconception ; and Obftrudtion, which is generally the Companion of Relaxation, adds Gloom, Melancholy, Anxiety, and a difordered Imagination to the baneful Catalogue. On the other Hand, in thofe Habits or Temperatures, in which the Powers and C 2 Functions