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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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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    the powers of the fenfes, but not without hu-^ man growth, and human induflry. 43. The brain being the foul's principal re- cepticle, conveys, in health, the foul's inten- tions,,by means of the nerves, to anfwer all the functions of life with order, precifion, and regularity, according to the laws of the animal ceconomy. 44. Inllead of a nervous fluid paffing and repafiing all our fenfations, either voluntary or involuntary, it feems more probable that it is the foul's influence that pervades, by its fubtilty, all organized and other parts; it is the grand condud:or, as well as governor, of its various feelings and actions. 45. All caufes mufl: be equal to their ef- fects, and while the foul's powers are not impeded in the brain or nerves, the invifible agent performs with more or lefs energy all the neceflary mental fundtions of life; but the organization of the brain being difeafed^ the foul is interrupted in its various powers by delirium, flupor, madnefs, falfe images, dec. &c. 46. The foul's powers, however great in an healthful organization of the brain, cannot conquer