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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    S*. w, I. J3 ] the Mind. But to conquer the latter will require Time and Perfervance. Grief ought to be amufed, and fup- planted by Hope, Fidelity and Confolation mud foften the edge of Jealoufy, and Love fhould certainly be gratified, if pofiible 5 or if that cannot be done, (fince as I laid be- fore, it has a double Claim) it muft be al- lowed every reafonable Indulgence, and fhould undoubtedly meet Returns of Sym- pathy and Tendernefs, fomewhere. None of the Paffions will admit of too fudden a Check. It is much better to en- deavour to fuperfede them, by Means of other, pleafant, Senfations, than to attempt, all at once, to Rifle and reft rain them. The Irritation on the Nerves, when once excited, muft have feme Play. It feeks a Vent through one Channel or another, and if it bur ft out in a Flood of Tears, a Fit of Laughter, ora Flow of Words, it may be reckoned a very favourable Termi- nation.