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

  • Reid, John, 1776-1822.
Date:
1821
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Credit: Essays on hypochondriasis, and other nervous affections / by John Reid. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    which the searching knife of the anatom- ist is unable to reveal. However well founded may be these observations, it must still be acknow- ledged that the different degrees of power which persons of various habits and constitutions appear to possess, not only over the feelings and faculties of the mind, but likewise over what are called the involuntary muscles, and even the blood-vessels of the body, may afford ground for an inquiry, curious at least if not important, how far so desirable a power may be acquired, and to what ex- tent, by some yet undiscovered method of education, it may be elevated and improved. Dr. Cheyne, in one of his medical trea- tises, narrates a case, the accuracy of which is established by an irrefragable combination of evidence, of a man who 19