Essays on hypochondriasis, and other nervous affections / By John Reid.

  • Reid, John, 1776-1822
Date:
1821
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Credit: Essays on hypochondriasis, and other nervous affections / By John Reid. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    machines, regulated principally by physi- cal agents. But man, matured, civilized, and by due culture raised to his proper level in the scale of being, pattakes more ofa moral than of an animal character, and is in consequence to be worked upon by remedies that apply themselves to his imagination, his passions, or his judg- ment, still more than by those that are directed immediately to the parts and functions of his material organization. Pharniacy is but a small part of physic; medical cannot be separated from moral science without reciprocal aid essential mutilation. Such observations are more particu- larly apt to occur to one whose station of professional experience is established in the midst of an intellectual, commercial and voluptuous metropolis, the inhabitants of which exist in a state of more exalted excitement and irritative perturbation, B 2