A treatise on some nervous disorders : being chiefly intended to illustrate those varieties which simulate structural disease / Edwin Lee.

  • Lee, Edwin, -1870.
Date:
1833
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Credit: A treatise on some nervous disorders : being chiefly intended to illustrate those varieties which simulate structural disease / Edwin Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    diseases, from which the barbarian and the labouring, man, occupied in his daily routine of mechanical employment, are exempt. The Romans, under the republic, enjoyed an exemption from nervous disorders, which forms a striking- contrast with their preva- lence among- the same people in later times. In this country these complaints prevail, at the present day, to an extent unknown at any former period, or in any other nation. The modern system of education, which tends to the cultivation of the cerebral faculties in a degree disproportioned to the exercise of the bodily powers, is one of the chief causes of the nervous susceptibility becoming- excessively developed; the pre- judicial effects of which are more evident after puberty, and during the succeeding, years of life, when the mental sensibilities are more directly calJed into action