A practical essay on diseases of the viscera : particularly those of the stomach and bowels, the liver, spleen, and urinary bladder: in which their nature, treatment, and cure, are clearly pointed out and explained / By John Leake.

  • John Leake
Date:
1792
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    The different feafons of Spring, Summer, and Winter, have alfo a manifeft influence on the bo- dy and mind. In Spring, animal, as well as ve- getable bodies experience a kind of refufcitation ; the nerves are invigorated, and irradiated with pleafurablefeelings; but when the autumnal leaves, like falfe friends, begin to fall off by the winter’s cold; they are overshadowed by melancholy gloom and all their deledtable fenfations are chilled and reverfed. The celebrated poet Mitten was a reT markable inftance of the truth of this affertion; for, we are told, his fancy made the moft eleva- ted flights in the Spring. His imagination in fe- veral parts of his II Penjerejo, V Allegro, and Ma/k of Comus, are fraught with the divine fpirit of poetry; whilfl at other times he fcarcely corner lip to cold mediocrity. It will not here be requifite to call in the affift- ance of Phyfic or Philofophy3 to prove the effects which different climates and alterations of wea- ther have on human bodies, efpecially thofe y/hich are infirm. T]ie great difference experien- ced «. . -i