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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    with Children, and Perfons in a weak, nervous and irritable State. Imagination is the Exercife of primary Perception, or Perception of the firft Forms and Colours, in which Images ftrike the Mind, unaccompanied with, and confer quently unaltered by the deliberative or reafoning Operations. Imagination, there- fore, confiders Objedts in the Light they firft appear, which Appearance does not always correfpond with Intrinficnefs or Reality; though very frequently the firft View of the Mind is as accurate and com- prehenfive as feveral Reviews or Compa- rifons are. When Memory or uncom^ pounded Reflection reprefents Images to the Mind, thefe Images arife merely from the Power of Recollection, which is only the Operation of the firft Clafs of Similitudes: but Images, which proceed from Judgment, are fafhioned with all the Rays and Shades of nice and minute Analogy ; and thefe are often created without any Afliftance from Memory. Hence Verfatility or Quicknefs of