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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    or inconsiderate nurse from all sense of moral responsibility. A disastrous result not unfrequently reflects the horror of guilt upon that conduct, which would otherwise have escaped any injurious im- putation, which would have been deemed innocent in its character, had it proved so in its consequences. Nothing can exceed the obvious injustice of this ew post facto mode of condemnation: yet after all, the event is often the only crite- rion by which the world, from its neces- sarily superficial knowledge, or from its careless examination, can pronounce a judgment upon the conduct of an indivi- dual; and, when that judgment is unfa- vourable, a man’s bitter reflections upon himself are rendered much more poig- nant, in consequence of their having been confirmed, as it were, by the verdict of his fellow-creatures. But, although the light of public opinion may sometimes be