Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de animo demisso ... / Eruditorum examini subjicit Caspar Wistar.

  • Wistar, Caspar, 1761-1818.
Date:
1786
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    tae In animum ejus invadunt. Cum exercitationem re¬ medii loco habet, morbi imago identidem animo ejus obverfatur. Iter facere negotiorum caufa, maxime eft profuturum, atque etiam longiufculum perpetuum iter, quatenus id per fe animi intendendi fui infervit, ex¬ ercitationi domefticae anteferendum eft. Ut efficiatur commutatio conditionis corporis, ejufmodi exercitatio¬ nem oportet adhiberi, quae gravis appellari poteft, et per complures menfes continuari; quo gravior, modo ne debilitetur aegrotans, eo magis profe&ura eft; ideo- que, ft animus pariter intentus poflet haberi, diuturnum iter pedeftre plus valiturum eft quam equeftre. Labor vi&ufque idoneus, fi fatis diu in iis perfevere- tur, eam magna ex parte corporis habitudinem fublatu- ra efle videntur, in qua morbus hic appareat, deinde nc is redeat fummis viribus eft enitendum. § 3. Hac de re obfervavit vir clarus Cullenus: f What- ever averfion to application of any kind may appear in hypochondriacs, there is nothing more pernicious to them, than abfolute idlenefs or a vacancy from all ear- neft purfuit. It is owing to wealth admitting of indo- lence, and leading to the purfuit of tranfitory and un- fatisfa&ory amufements,or tothatofexhaufting pleafures only, that the prefent times exhibit to us fo many in- ftances of hypochondriacifm Praeclara haec obfer- vatio * Vide Firft Lines, §