A Dissertation on the Influence of the Passions Upon Disorders of the Body

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C. Dilly, 1796 - 176 стор.
 

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Сторінка 44 - ... on the side of t.he Moors. He had no sooner brought his men to the engagement, but finding himself utterly spent, he was again replaced in his litter, where, laying his finger on his mouth, to enjoin secrecy to his officers who stood about him, he died a few moments after, in that posture.
Сторінка 147 - Hieres, (February, 1744,1 our men understood that the enemy's fleet and ours were soon to engage. There appeared, not only in the healthy, but also in the sick, the highest marks of satisfaction and pleasure, and these last mended surprisingly daily, inasmuch that on the llth of February, the day we engaged the combined fleets of France and Spain, we had not above four or five but what were at their fighting quarters.1 Dr.
Сторінка 29 - What diseases may be mitigated or cured, by exciting particular affections or passions of the mind...
Сторінка 15 - What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
Сторінка 49 - ... Thus fond of vengeance, with a furious bound, In clanging arms he leaps upon, the ground From his high chariot : him, approaching near, The beauteous champion views with. marks of fear; Smit with a confcious fenfe, retires behind) 45And limns the fate he well deferv'd to find.
Сторінка 147 - This, added to the other calamities, induced the garrison to incline towards a surrender of that place, when the prince of Orange, anxious to prevent its loss, and unable to relieve the garrison, contrived however to introduce letters addressed to the men, promising them the most speedy assistance. These were accompanied with medicines...
Сторінка 74 - The mind of the patient, ought not only to be kept " rafy, but foothed and comforted with hopes of a fpeedy " recovery. Nothing is more hurtful in low fevers of this " kind, than prefenting to the patient's imagination gloomy " or frightful ideas. Thefe of themfelves often occafion nerw vous fevers, and it is not to be doubted, that they will
Сторінка 151 - An important lesson in physic is hence to be learned, by the wonderful and powerful influence of the passions of the mind on the state and disorders of the body. This is too often overlooked in the cure of disorders, many of which are sometimes attempted by the sole mechanical operation of drugs, without calling in to our assistance the strong powers of the imagination, or the concurring influence of the soul.
Сторінка 16 - Him, and fell on His Neck, and kiJJ'ed Him : and they wept.
Сторінка 20 - The •** face at length becomes pale and " wan, the eyes fink, the appetite for *' food is obliterated, frightful dreams

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