A dissertation on the influence of the passions upon disorders of the body / by William Falconer ... ; being the essay to which the Fothergillian Medal was adjudged.

  • Falconer, William, 1744-1824.
Date:
1796
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Credit: A dissertation on the influence of the passions upon disorders of the body / by William Falconer ... ; being the essay to which the Fothergillian Medal was adjudged. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    ^' face at length becomes pale and ,wan, the eyes fink, the appetite for ^^ food is obliterated, frightful dreams ^^ invade the tedious night. Melan- ^^ choly, defpair, and mania, termi- *' nate the heart-felt conflift. If man be thus fubjeft to the in- ^* fluence of the paffions in health, '*^ how gr^at muft be their effefts when vigour of health no longer fuftains *^ his frame ! Wifely therefore did this ^^ fociety propofe a prize queftion, fo confonant to our imbecillities, fo in- terefting to our nature, and fo appli- cable to the virtues of the phyfi- cian, from whom our medal is deno- ^^ minated. Humanized as the medi- cal charafter naturally becomes, by impreffions of fympathy with human woe, did any individual ever exhibit fuch an interefting combination of « ten-