A view of the nervous temperament; being a practical enquiry into the increasing prevalence, prevention, and treatment of those diseases commonly called nervous, bilious, stomach and liver complaints; indigestion; low spirits; gout, etc / By Thomas Trotter, M.D.

  • Trotter, Thomas, 1760-1832.
Date:
1812
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Credit: A view of the nervous temperament; being a practical enquiry into the increasing prevalence, prevention, and treatment of those diseases commonly called nervous, bilious, stomach and liver complaints; indigestion; low spirits; gout, etc / By Thomas Trotter, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DEDICATION. De | may not find explained in common elementary treatises of anatomy and physiology. My plan is briefly this: a cursory view is given of the health of the savage state, in order ett the contrast with civilized wibikind may appear more striking. ‘The inhabitants of a large town are next described ; which may be construed into a kind of medical analysis of society: and this leads to an account of the remote causes, as found among refined modes of life and luxurious habits. A chapter follows on the influence which these disor- ders have on national character and domestic hap- pines. The history and progress of nervous dis- eases, with a general doctrine, or summary of the pathology, precede the prevention and method of treatment. On the whole there will be found little of what is called theory in this discusion: unshackled by any attachment to system, and unseduced by the Jove of novelty, I have endeavoured to delineate the Nervous TEMPERAMENT, as I have seen it in actual practice, and in a large intercourse with mankind, But in treating of a class of diseases out of the usual tract of enquiry, I am willing to confess, that many peculiarities may be observed, and some obscurities detected. I will make no apologies to my countrymen, for offering them my advice, on matters that so nearly concern their health: if the title of my book excites dislike, let them remember the perusal of it is voluntary,