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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    [ ] Fun&ions of the Syftem rife above the Line of Mediocrity, or Standard of Health, and occafion Irregularity only on that Account, the Difpofition of the Mind receives the Stamp, and wears the Colours of Pride, ReftleiTnefs, Vanity, and Defire. Tliefe, moreover, have not fo fad a Complexion, nor {kj fickly an Afpedt as the former, and befides are much more eafily reduced to the proper Equilibrium. In all Cafes where the Paffions are once excited, the beft Antidote is the Creation of new and oppofite Impreffions. Change the Objedts, fhift the Scene, footh the Mind, and compofe the Body, and if Need be, fortify it alfo. Thefe Rules are applicable in fudden Emotions, as Anger, Fear, &c. and are equally appofite in the Paffions of fuf- pended Love, Grief, Jealoufy, &c. where there is always fome Image permanently re- prefented, and, in a Manner, fettled upon