A treatise of the hypochondriack and hysterick passions, vulgarly call'd the hypo in men and vapours in women; in which the symptoms, causes, and cure of those diseases are set forth after a method entirely new. The whole interspers'd with instructive discourses on the real art of physick it self; and entertaining remarks on the modern practice of physicians and apothecaries ... In three dialogues / By B. de Mandeville.

  • Mandeville, Bernard, 1670-1733
Date:
1711
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Credit: A treatise of the hypochondriack and hysterick passions, vulgarly call'd the hypo in men and vapours in women; in which the symptoms, causes, and cure of those diseases are set forth after a method entirely new. The whole interspers'd with instructive discourses on the real art of physick it self; and entertaining remarks on the modern practice of physicians and apothecaries ... In three dialogues / By B. de Mandeville. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ring Nature to take up with the foofe con* jectures of his own wand ring Invention, that the World may admire the Fertility of his Brain $ and ic is pride in the Patient, that makes him in love with the reafoning Phy- (ician, to have an opportunity of (hewing the depth of his Penetration. But if the reafons that are often given by the one and taken for' currant by the other, were to Be Oriffiy examin'd into, it would almoft in¬ duce a Man of Senfe to difown his Kind, and make him blufh. when he is call’d a Ra*^ ■ \ * r tiona! Creature. I know that to advance this Do&rine is fwimming againfi the Stream in our fprightly talkative Age, in which the filent Experi¬ ence of Pains-taking Praditionersis ridicule], and nothing cried up but the witty Specu¬ lations of Hypothetical Doctors. In vain, fays the Learned Baglivi : Nos latet <£te*'ntmque latebit minima ilia, ac fub- tilis^ non fohtm afen(ibas^ fed ab human £ mentis acic prorfus remat a jc! id arum <eque ae pui damns corporis viventis partium texiura The emphstical Truth is loft upon the Times, and he. miift not expeft to be believed by our acute Fhilofophers, whole Pride won’t allow that it is pcffible Nature fhould have recedes beyond the reach of their Sagacity and 'reckons the injurious aflertion an Af I rent to Humane tlnderftanding. i b