A treatise on madness and suicide : with the modes of determining with precision mental affections, in a legal point of view, and containing objections to vomiting, opium, and other mal-practices, &c. &c. / by William Rowley.

  • Rowley, William, 1742 or 1743-1806.
Date:
1804
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on madness and suicide : with the modes of determining with precision mental affections, in a legal point of view, and containing objections to vomiting, opium, and other mal-practices, &c. &c. / by William Rowley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    37. The properties of the foul then begin with refpiration, and, on refpiration ceafing, the foul lofes all its faculties; does it not ap- pear, that it receives conftantly fomething from the atmofpheric air we breathe ? The foul feems as fugitive as air. It receives all its primary knowledge by its operation to, from, and by the evidence of the fenfes : it retains what it is taught, can afterwards re- fled:, remember, reafon, judge, always in proportion to the number and diverfity of ideas it has received or colledied. Where there be few ideas, the refledtion, reafoning, and judgment are proportionably confined ; where they be various and numerous, the foul views men and things very extenfively. The inferiority or fuperiority of human un- derftanding generally depend on the paucity or multiplicity of ideas and juft rea,foning polTeffed by the mind. 38. The powers of the foul on the body have been already obferved ; it can adt on the heart, and impel a greater quantity of blood to the head, for either mental or bodily exer- tion.