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.

Date:
[1785?]
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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 Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    1 C 3 ] confifts of all thofe Parts that have Senfi- bility and Motion, and whofe Properties are more difficult to explain. When thefe two Syftems are happily ballanced and proportioned, all the Powers and Functions of the Body, as well as of the Mind, come neareft to a State of Regu- larity and Perfection. In all my Refearches into the Nature and Principles of the human Mind, I muft confefs that I can difcern no one fingle Ope- ration of it diftindt from, and unconnected with the Body. That there moft 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 relides, or begins, within the Brain, Anatomical Difle&ions, and the Obfervations of common Senie unqueftion- ably demcnftrate. To define the Magni- tude, Quantity, or Proportion of this B 2 Power,