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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    TO WHICPI DR. FALCONER RE- TURNED THE FOLLOWING ANSWER. GENTLEMEN, I will not attempt to conceal my feelings on the receiving fuch an ho- *^ nourable mark of diftinftion as the ^' prefent; a diftinftion to me particu- larly valuable and dear, as it conveys ^^ the approbation of perfons, whofe judgment and impartiality I cannot queftion, and as it is the firft fruits of an inftitution deftined not to preferve the memory, (for that needed no affiftance) but to promote the imi- tation of a charafter far fuperior to my weak eulogium. A character with which I had the happinefs to *' be acquainted at my firft entrance into profeflional life, a period at which '' the