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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    has on thefe difeafes, owing to its fym- pathj with the animal frame : but though the fufFerings of the mind may be at- tributed to its connexion with the body, it will be proper to recoiled the reciprocal influence of the former upon the latter. In this difeafe we may confider both body and mind as becoming, in their turn, agent and patient. Some of the mental affec- tions are more apt to produce thofe fen- fations which have been defcribed than others are; but there are not any of them which, when indulged to excefs, may not prove an occafion of them. Grief and anxiety are very copious fources of them. Loffes and difappointments of va- rious kinds, have produced a ftate of mind, which has been followed by long con- tinued hypochondriacal afFedions. Violent