Essays on hypochondriacal and other nervous affections / [John Reid].

  • John Reid
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1816
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Credit: Essays on hypochondriacal and other nervous affections / [John Reid]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    wards called for his attorney, added a codicil to his will, &c. and calmly and composedly died about five or six o’clock that evening.”’* Burton in his Anatomy of Melan- choly, reports cases which were some- what similar, but by no means equally wonderful with the preceding. * Celsus speaks of a priest that could separate himself from his senses when he list, and lie like a dead man void of life and sense. Qui, quoties volebat, mortuo similis ja- cebat, auferens se a sensibus. Cardan brags of himself, that he could do as much, and that when he list.”’+ Such instances serve to shew that the will can perform wonders in the controul and management of our corporeal frame. * Cheyne’s English Malady. + Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy, Voli. v.14. | actavo edit.