Essays on hypochondriasis, and other nervous affections / By John Reid.

  • John Reid
Date:
1823
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Credit: Essays on hypochondriasis, and other nervous affections / By John Reid. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    labour, watchfulness, and anxiety that im- mediately preceded its appearance. I was once consulted concerning an hypochondriacal lady, who complained principally of an invincible indolence and languor. She seemed almost incapable of voluntary motion. ‘This apparent in- capacity had been sanctioned and con- firmed by authority as well as indulgence. She had been told by a very complaisant physician that “ exertion would be poison to her,’ and had too literally reposed under the shelter of that professional opinion. Many, from an anxiety to avoid this falsely-imagined poison, reject the most effectual antidote to the real miseries of life, as well as to a large proportion of its diseases. ‘l'o a patient, however, whose malady is lassitude, exertion should be prescribed at first only in very small doses. Such a person would be apt to be ex- hausted even by an ordinary task of exer- carg