A view of the nervous temperament : being a practical enquiry into the increasing prevalence, prevention, and treatment of those diseases commonly called nervous, bilious, stomach and liver complaints; indigestion; low spirits; gout, &c. / by Thomas Trotter.

  • Trotter, Thomas, 1760-1832.
Date:
1807
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Credit: A view of the nervous temperament : being a practical enquiry into the increasing prevalence, prevention, and treatment of those diseases commonly called nervous, bilious, stomach and liver complaints; indigestion; low spirits; gout, &c. / by Thomas Trotter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    nervous females having been treated for typhus fever, to the great alarm of their fa- milies, when they were labouring under debility of body and mind, widely different in nature; and attended too by men who called themfelves feniors in the practice. A prevailing contagion mufl be badly under- ftood, when both phyfician and patient be- come dupes of fuch imneceffary fears. I am, therefore, in hopes, that the method which I have taken in the following invefti- gation, will fomewhat contribute to familiarize the junior members of the profeffion with the genius of nervous diforders, and to guard them agalnfl: miftakes in the treatment. But I have no hefitation in thinking, that my enquiry may be ufeful to general readers. We meet with numbers of perfons in the world, who, though obftinate in re- fufing advice for their own health, are never- thelefs very ready to comply with every pre- cept that may corred the hereditary predif- pofition to difeafe in their offspring. Much of my animadverfions on thefe diforders, is with a view to the prevention ; and if parents and guardians will only intereft themfelves in the bufmefs, my trouble cannot be in vain.