Remarks on the unity of the body : as illustrated by some of the more striking phenomena of sympathy, both mental and corporeal, with a view of enlarging the grounds and improving the application of the constitutional treatment of local diseases / by George Macilwain.

  • Macilwain, George, 1797-1882.
Date:
1836
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    it may perhaps have been allowed to rest too exclusively on such considerations; and thus, under the influence of prejudice, or misconception, may have frequently encoun- tered scepticism, where, had the argument been more enlarged, it would have carried conviction. Now, nothing appears more emphatically to demonstrate that Unity of the Body, on which Mr. Abernethy's prin- ciples are essentially based, than the con- sideration of the phenomena of Sympathy ; and to arrange some of the more important of these in a form which, if it do not chal- lenge correctness, shall at least not disgust by its difficulty, has been my first object. In order to impress that linking together of individual existences, constituting the con- nexion of the whole with all its parts, I have endeavoured to shew that the mind fur- nishes its quota of illustration. I have also endeavoured to exemplify the bearings which the sympathies especially, have on the ex- planation of diseases; and in, not only esta- blishing the excellence, but also in improv- ing and enlarging the application of the constitutional treatment of them. In con-