A dissertation on the sensible and irritable parts of animals / Translated from the Latin. With a preface by M. Tissot.

  • Albrecht von Haller
Date:
1755
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Credit: A dissertation on the sensible and irritable parts of animals / Translated from the Latin. With a preface by M. Tissot. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This great principle ferves as a bails to the whole pradlice of this remedy, and the man¬ ner of its adting accounts for all the fymptoms which it produces. But it would be too tedi¬ ous to enter into this detail, which every one may eaiily follow. We frequently fee perfons in whom thc- moft trifling moving caufe, occafions much more confiderable commotions, than»it pro-* duces in thofe of a ftronger habit. They can¬ not bear the llighteft unufual impreffion; the: leaft alarm, from whatever caufe, will occa- lion extraordinary fymptoms in them, which,- acebrding to their appearances and the part' where the firfl: caufe of the complaint is ima¬ gined to refide, are known by the name of vapours, or hyfterics, or other extraordinary complaints^'% the immediate caufe of which haV always been attributed to an exceflive mobility of the animal fpirits, but the true one is too great an Irritability of the parts. This principle, combined with fenfibility, accounts for the^ moll extraordinary phsenomena attending thofe' * The celebrated Dr. Gortep., to whom the practice of phyfic is fo much obliged, is the firft who has treated cx- I prefsly of nwhility, a difeafe Co frequent and fo little known.' 1 The defcriptioii which he gives , of it is very exafl, and I i would advife every phyfician to be acquainted with what he faj s of It in his C>ow^(ticliupt^ and his Syjlgfnct Pvdpcgsst difor-
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