A new system of the spleen, vapours, and hypochondriack melancholy wherein all the decays of the nerves, and lownesses of the spirits, are mechanically accounted for. To which is subjoined, a discourse upon the nature, cause, and cure, of melancholy, madness, and lunacy. With a particular dissertation on the origine of the passions; the structure, etc. of the nerves ... To which is prefix'd a philosophical essay concerning the principles of thought / [Nicholas Robinson].

  • Robinson, Nicholas, 1697?-1775.
Date:
1729
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Credit: A new system of the spleen, vapours, and hypochondriack melancholy wherein all the decays of the nerves, and lownesses of the spirits, are mechanically accounted for. To which is subjoined, a discourse upon the nature, cause, and cure, of melancholy, madness, and lunacy. With a particular dissertation on the origine of the passions; the structure, etc. of the nerves ... To which is prefix'd a philosophical essay concerning the principles of thought / [Nicholas Robinson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Part I. Our Ignorance, I fay, of the Marn ner how this Jundure is fupported, that is, how the Body works upon Thought, and Thought upon Matter, will ever render us liable to great Uncertainties concerning the real and immediate Caufes of Pleafure and Pain, or how thofe dif¬ ferent and oppofite Senfations are pro¬ duc’d, from the fame Inftruments, in ani¬ mal Bodies; and as the ingenious Au¬ thor of the T)if^enfary elegantly ex- prelTes it: How the fame Nerves are fajhion'd to fuftain The highejt Tleajure and the greateji Tain. Probability In Points, thus far lying beyond the the p&dt Reach of our natural Faculties to com- Demonftra- prehend, the higheft feeming Probability tion, where n a • a i i -n that cannot mult determine our Allent, which will always give way to the Force of thofe Arguments, that are grounded upon Rea- fons moft evidently prevailing. New %