A treatise of the hypochondriack and hysterick passions, vulgarly call'd the hypo in men and vapours in women ... The whole interspers'd with instructive discourses on the real art of physick it self; and entertaining remarks on the modern practice of physicians and apothecaries / [B. M (Bernard Mandeville)].

  • Mandeville, Bernard, 1670-1733
Date:
1715
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Credit: A treatise of the hypochondriack and hysterick passions, vulgarly call'd the hypo in men and vapours in women ... The whole interspers'd with instructive discourses on the real art of physick it self; and entertaining remarks on the modern practice of physicians and apothecaries / [B. M (Bernard Mandeville)]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Ingenious Sylvius de le Boe was a. Phyfician, that in fearching after the Caufes of Diftempers gave no fmall liberty to his prolifick Fancy5 yet fpeaking of thofe, I am to treat of, he condefcended to fay, Cognitio rerum naturalium omnium eft ah ex- perientia per fenfus faff a 5 unde caufas ejfeffu- um Jfc compertorum exquirit ratiocinaiione con¬ catenate ingenium humanum. De veritate tamen inventa certus ejfe potejl nemo ; niji pojlquam de fu<e ratiocinationis foliditate Con- firmatus fuerit per eandem experientiam, ra- tiocinationem prtcdicfatn ipfo opere confirmando & comprobando. How little and precarious a ufe at this rate Rcafoning is of in Phy- fick, if compared to the abfolute neceffity of Experience, even by the confeffion of a Genius fo fruitful in Suppofitions, I leave all fenfible Men to judge. From what I have hinted, I don’t qneftion but fome of my Readers have already taken a prejudice againft me: But let me beg of thofe impatient ones, that for what I have faid yet, and what they fhall further fee upon this Head in the Firft Dialogue, they would not Cenfure, or by way of Pun condemn me for an Enemy to Reafon, before they are come to the end of the Se¬ cond, and I fhall have fhew'd them what fort of Reafoning it is, I fpeak againft. Some