Essays on hypochondriacal and other nervous affections / [John Reid].

  • Reid, John, 1776-1822.
Date:
1816
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Essays on hypochondriacal and other nervous affections / [John Reid]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    25/286 (page 17)
    cise, and might thus be discouraged from further efforts at activity. In the class of what are called nervous affections, it unfortunately happens, that the very essence of the disease often con- sists in a debility of the resolution, that the ailment of body arises from an im- potency of spirit, a palsy of the power of resistance. A malady occasioned by the weakness of the mind is not likely to be cured by its energy. A tendency to sick- ness of the stomach may often be over- come by striving against it, but a squea- mish disgust of life cannot in the same degree be counteracted by a similar kind of exertion. It is not uncommon to say to a drooping or desponding valetudina- rian, “only exert yourself and you will get the better of your complaint;” whereas, in many instances of this kind, it might as well be said to an invalid confined to his bed by a paralysis of his limbs, only run Cc