A treatise of the spleen and vapours, or hypochondriacal and hysterical affections. With three discourses on the nature and cure of the cholick, melancholy, and palsies ... / [Sir Richard Blackmore].

  • Blackmore, Richard, Sir, 1654-1729
Date:
1735
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Credit: A treatise of the spleen and vapours, or hypochondriacal and hysterical affections. With three discourses on the nature and cure of the cholick, melancholy, and palsies ... / [Sir Richard Blackmore]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    trefadion and Malignity,, the Blood is not at all infeded ; but the de- ftrudive Matter convey 'd by the Air, as it were a poifcnous Gafs, a pcfti- lential Damp or deadly Exhalation, like that which is fometimes let out by Delvers from metallick Veins, aboliflies in a Moment all vital Mo¬ tion, by extinguifhing at once the Syftem of the Animal Spirits : Thus in the Times of a raging Plague, Perfons walking in the Streets have fallen down dead in an Inftant, as if ftruck with a Flafh of Lightning: and others have lived but few Hours after they were attacked; whence it is plain, that this word: fort of Fe¬ vers aided the Spirits and Nerves only, iince they deftroy the Patient, before they can communicate their Poifon to the Blood, or produce any Symptoms there. Now it is certain, that Hypocon- driacal and Hyfterick Patients very i often