A treatise on nervous diseases : in which are introduced some observations on the structure and functions of the nervous system; and such an investigation of the symptoms and causes of these diseases as may lead to a rational and successful method of cure / by Sayer Walker, M. D. of the Royal College of Physicians, London: physician in ordinary to the city of London Lying-in-Hospital; and one of the physicians to the City Dispensary.

  • Walker, Sayer, 1748-1826.
Date:
1796
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Credit: A treatise on nervous diseases : in which are introduced some observations on the structure and functions of the nervous system; and such an investigation of the symptoms and causes of these diseases as may lead to a rational and successful method of cure / by Sayer Walker, M. D. of the Royal College of Physicians, London: physician in ordinary to the city of London Lying-in-Hospital; and one of the physicians to the City Dispensary. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    jeaion and defpair; in the other by in- *' adlivity and languor. The too free ufe of fpirituous liquors is, undoubtedly, a fruitful fource of the difeafes we have been defcribing. The temporary pleafure which thefe produce, or that elevation of fpirits which they occafion, has been a ftrong temptation to the ufe of them. But, though the im- mediate effects are fo grateful, the remote confequences are dreadful. Debility and tremor, impotence and dejed:ion, may very frequently be referred to this practice as their original caufe. Amongft the numerous occafional caufes of this difeafe, we muft not omit to men- tion the paffions of the mind. We have already, in our enumeration of fymptoms, confidered the influence which the mind