Observations on the nature, causes, and cure, of those disorders, which have been commonly called nervous, hypochondriac, or hysteric. To which are prefixed, some remarks on the sympathy of the nerves / By Robert Whytt.

  • Robert Whytt
Date:
M,DCC,LXVII
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Credit: Observations on the nature, causes, and cure, of those disorders, which have been commonly called nervous, hypochondriac, or hysteric. To which are prefixed, some remarks on the sympathy of the nerves / By Robert Whytt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ HI ] ; PREFACE. A THE diforders which are the fubjeel of the following obfervations, have » been treated of by authors under the names of flatulent, fpafmodic, hypochon¬ driac, or hyfteric; Of late, they have al- fo got the name of Nervous; which ap¬ pellation having been commonly given to many fymptoms feemingly different, and ' very obfeure in their nature, has often made it to be faid, that phyficians have bellow- i , - ed the character of nervous on all thofe diforders whofe nature and caufes they were ignorant of, To wipe off this re- 1 V proach, and, at the fame time, to throw fome light on nervous, hypochondriac, and hyfteric complaints, is the defign of the ( following obfervations; which are alio in¬ tended to fhew* how far the principles laid down in my Effay on the vital and othqr involuntary motions of animals may be of