The epidemics of the middle ages / from the German of I.F.C. Hecker ; translated by B.G. Babington.

Date:
1835
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Credit: The epidemics of the middle ages / from the German of I.F.C. Hecker ; translated by B.G. Babington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    maladies which are the subject of these pages, are so intimately connected with the disordered state of both, that it is often difficult to determine on which they more essentially depend, or which they more seriously influence. The physician will probably be led by their contemplation to admit that the ima- gination has a larger share in the production of disease than he might, without a know- ledge of the striking facts here recorded, have supposed to be within the limits of pos- sibility. He has, no doubt, already observed, that joy will affect the circulation, grief the digestion, that anger will heat the frame as perniciously as ardent spirits, and that fear will chill it as certainly as ice; but he may not have carried his observation to the extent of perceiving, that not only single and transient effects, but specific diseases are