Essays on hypochondriacal and other nervous affections / by John Reid.

  • Reid, John, 1776-1822.
Date:
1817
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Credit: Essays on hypochondriacal and other nervous affections / by John Reid. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON THE INFLUENCE OF THE MIND ON THE BODY. HE who, in the study or the treatment of the human frame, overlooks the intellectual part of it, cannot but entertain very incorrect notions of its nature, and fall into gross and sometimes fatal blunders in the means which he adopts for its regulation or repair. Whilst he is directing his purblind skill to remove or relieve some more obvious and superficial symptom, the worm of mental malady may be gnawing inwardly and undetected at the root of the constitution. He may be in a sit- uation like that of a surgeon, who at the time that he is occupied in tying up one ar- tery, is not aware that his patient is bleeding to death at another.—Intellect is not omnipo- tent ; but its actual power over tbe organized matter to which it is attached, is much greater than is usually imagined. The anatomy of the MIND, tliereforc, should be learnt, as well ^U* ^^ ^^ ^^^>v'^ ^^'^ OS I!fl» ^^^* ^^^o^t-^