Essays on insanity, hypochondriasis, and other nervous affections / by John Reid, M.D.

  • Reid, John, 1776-1822.
Date:
1816
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Credit: Essays on insanity, hypochondriasis, and other nervous affections / by John Reid, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    more importance to the vigour and proper condition, even of his body, than almost any variety in the modification or pro- portion of those material ingredients with which his lungs are supplied by the exter- nal air. A residence even in a great and polluted city, which affords objects of interest and motives to exertion ought to be recommended more especially to an hypochondriacal or nervous patient, in preference to the most highly oxygenated situation in the country, where there is not enough to rouse the sluggishness, or to fill the vacuity of the mind. Hypochondriasis is far from being a metropolitan disease. The multiplicity of external objects which, in a great capi- tal, are continually giving a new direction to the current of thought, is of course unfavorable to the uniformity and self- absorption of melancholy. There are^^ in such a situation, so many rival can-