Medicina simplex, or, The pilgrims waybook, being an enquiry into the moral and physical conditions of a healthy life and happy old age : with household prescriptions / by a physician.
- Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster
- Date:
- 1832
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Medicina simplex, or, The pilgrims waybook, being an enquiry into the moral and physical conditions of a healthy life and happy old age : with household prescriptions / by a physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.
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![THIRD SUPPLEMENTARY ESSAY. Jn the Influence which particular varieties of Cerebral Organization have over the Disorders of the Indivi- dual; and on the means of counteracting the same. Phrenology is the Science which teaches Ihe vaiielies in the human constitution and [haracter, as they are indicated by the cor- [esponding varieties in the form and size of le organs of the brain; the particulars of ^hich will be found in the numerous and llaborate works of MM. Gall and Spurzheim ]n that subject. It is sufficient for our pre- 5nt purpose to observe, that the particular [isorders to which individuals are liable, are a great measure dependent on the cerebral L'ganization. Persons with much of the or- [an of cautiousness, and but little of that of |oj)e, for instance, are more liable to des- ndency than others who have the reverse fganization, and when afflicted with the or- nary derangements of the biliary system, ten become melancholic. Such persons ould be very careful to keep the stomach d liver in good order; since, in addition the frequent inconvenience of visceral sorder, they will be liable to a depressing action of the sympathizing organs of the ain. I have already spoken of the ten-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21483565_0223.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
