Volume 1

Professional anecdotes, or ana of medical literature.

Date:
1825
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Professional anecdotes, or ana of medical literature. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ Promittit Prseses responsum viro dicto inta triduum ex animo et sensu Collegii.”* THE POISON MANIA OF THE PRESENT DAY. In the good old times of our ancestors, it was the usual custom, on winter evenings, when the family were assembled around the blazing fire, for some maiden aunt, some gossiping nurse, or tattling dairy-maid, to relate a number of wonderful stories of ghosts and goblins, until their auditors became afraid of their own sha- dows, or of the sound of their own respiration ; and remained nearly in a state of inanimation from fear. Yet this state of suspended anima- tion, for so it must be called, seems to have been attended with pleasurable feelings; for, we know that the audience, on succeeding even- ings, returned to their accustomed tales with delight, until the feelings of fear again over- powered and absorbed the whole of their facul- ties. But, except in some small villages, or insulated houses far remote from those high roads, which, by their facilitating the inter- course of the most distant parts of the kingdom, have so greatly assimilated the manners and opinions of the resident inhabitants of the coun- * The President promised an answer to the said man within three days, according to the desire and meaning of the College.
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