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

  • Reid, John, 1776-1822.
Date:
1816
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Credit: Essays on hypochondriacal and other nervous affections / [John Reid]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pacific indifference, on the part of the subject of it, with regard to the ultimate result. Cases have repeatedly occurred in my professional experience, in which, after having chearfully looked for an event which the sufferer anticipated sim- ply as a release from pain, he has ap- peared to feel somewhat like disap- pointment at a recovery which was pro- bably to be attributed, in a great mea- sure, to its not having been anxiously desired. I particularly recollect one instance of a restoration to health from an apparently hopeless disease, which | ascribed, at the time, to the tranquil chearfulness of the patient, which powerfully aided the operations of na- ture, and gave an efficacy altogether unexpected to the applications of art. This patient was one of the Society of Friends; a society whose peaceful tenets and habits prove as favourable