Some thoughts on the relaxation of human bodies : and on the misapplication of the bark in that and some other cases.

Date:
1783
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Credit: Some thoughts on the relaxation of human bodies : and on the misapplication of the bark in that and some other cases. 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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    Thoughts ON THE RELAXATION of HUMAN BODIES. RELAXATION is a complaint very common at prefcnt in this king- dom. The caufes of it are many and vari- ous : fometimes it arifes from the paf- lions. Grief relaxes,andunbindsthcvvhole body. Joy has the fame effedl; as we fee that in both cafes tears will flow: evi- dent tokens of relaxation of the lachry- mal veffels. Fear alfo is another caufe of this malady; the urine comes away in- voluntarily ^ the ftrength and limbs arc B difTolved,