The oeconomy of health, or, A medical essay : containing new and familiar instructions for the attainment of health, happiness and longevity, in which the nature of the human mind is accurately investigated, and its union and connexion with the body systematically explained / by Andrew Harper.

  • Harper, Andrew, -1790
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[1789]
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Credit: The oeconomy of health, or, A medical essay : containing new and familiar instructions for the attainment of health, happiness and longevity, in which the nature of the human mind is accurately investigated, and its union and connexion with the body systematically explained / by Andrew Harper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    confifls of all thofe Parts that have Senfi- bility and ]\^otion, and whofe Properties are more difficult to explain. When thefe two Syftems are happily ballahcedahd proportioned, all the Powers and Fundions of the Body, as well as of thfe Mind, ceime neareft to a State of Regu- larity and Perledion. •In all. my Refearches into the Nature and Principles of the human Mind, I mull: confefs that I can difcern no one fmgle Ope- ration of it diftind: from, and unconned:ed with the Bod)^. That there mod certainly is a prime Move- ment, general Senfory, or a concentrated Power, which is the Origin of all the Fa- culties and Offices of the Body, and that this Power refides, or begins, within the Brain, Anatomical Diffedlions, and .the Obfervations of common Senfe unqueftion- ably dem.onftrate. To define the Magni- tude, Quantity, or Proportion of this B 2 Power,