A familiar treatise : nervous affections, disorders of the head and chest, stomach and bowels, &c. Also, on the means of repairing a debilitated constitution, through the establishment of a healthy digestion; including prescriptions in plain English, from the writings and private practice of eminent physicians / By J. Stevenson, M.D.

  • Stevenson, J., M.D.
Date:
1830
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Credit: A familiar treatise : nervous affections, disorders of the head and chest, stomach and bowels, &c. Also, on the means of repairing a debilitated constitution, through the establishment of a healthy digestion; including prescriptions in plain English, from the writings and private practice of eminent physicians / By J. Stevenson, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    indeed creates a certain confusion in phrases and terms, which is not easy to get over; the fact is, that when we introduce any novelty in art or science, we are obliged to speak a figurative kind of language by borrowing the terms of one art to express another. For example, when a person complains that his are low on Tuesday, we commonly say, that they must have been overproof on Monday ; and so on of many others, with which at present we shall not trouble our readers. NERVINE MADNESS, A PICTURE FROM REAL LIFE, &c. Such was the substance of the learned chymist’s communication on this subject, the truth of which we have been enabled, from the same source to coinfirm by the following account from a family man, who was pleased to favour the world with his experience on the subject, and who writes as follows : I have. Sir, a wife, whom T married for love, for she had not one penny of fortune, and yet, notwith- standing this latter circumstance, she is in possession of a most watchful and irritable collection of nerves, and enjoys a perpetual state of trepidation. I had the curiosity to keep a register of her alarms for the last twelvemonths, and found they amounted to nine hundred and forty-six, very nearly three a day, a number you will think almost incredible; but your wonder will cease, when I tell you that it is the