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
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    nd the physical means of cure are resorted o, aud the organs of the brain and of the tomach being reciprocally relieved, the ma- ady is cured, in catholic states; while in hose where Heresy throws shadows, from er barren pinions, on this sublunary scene, e evil is made worse rather than better by *me and reflection, till a mistaken recourse fermented liquors completes the catastro- he. I account, on this principle, for the mparison already drawn. Another affection dependent on a particu- r organization consists in the false spec- _al illusions which I have described in page , aud which principally occur in persons ho have the part of the brain between the gans of ideality, of imitation, and of hope, uch developed; the same organization also sposes to credulity in general, and gives a Stic character to the mind * Persons thus organized, when they he- me n-ritable from digestive disorder, and rticularly when any striking image, or inful idea, has made a too strong impres- n, are liable to see false representations of same or other images, which appear with much vividity that they are taken for real ternal objects: hence, in my opinion, oc- the numerous stories of Ghosts, with ich country villages abound, and which, See Orffanolo<^ie, par F. ./. Gal], vol. v. pa^e 345 hich he explains the physical causes of Visions.