A treatise of the spleen and vapours: or, hypocondriacal and hysterical affections. With three discourses on the nature and cure of the cholick, melancholy, and palsies ... / Never before published. Written by Sir Richard Blackmore.

  • Richard Blackmore
Date:
1725
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Credit: A treatise of the spleen and vapours: or, hypocondriacal and hysterical affections. With three discourses on the nature and cure of the cholick, melancholy, and palsies ... / Never before published. Written by Sir Richard Blackmore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Various Diforders in the Heart arife from this Diftemper; whence it fome- times fprings again{t the Breaft with emi- cafit Vigor and impetuous Vibrations; as if impatient of Confinement, it would break through the Fences that reftrained, it; and fometimes its Motions are fo faint and languifhirig, that 1t feems caft down from its Seat, and depreffed into an infe- rior Station. | In Perfons thus affected, if ariy Phan- tafm ftrikes upon the Imagination with Vehemence, if an Incident of Impor- tance, or any Meffenger of 1]] News fur- prize them, the Spirits inthe Brain being of a volatile Nature, and eafily difperfed, are agitated with fuch Violence, that they tuth from thence through the nervous Paflages in Diforder and Precipitation; of which fome by a convulfive Grafp, con tract the great Artery called Aorta, and by that difturb and interrupt the Current of the Blood; and others entering the Heart if Confufion, caufe Variety of Per- turbations, Trembling, Palpitation, vio= lent Leapings, and a {wift, intermitting Pulfation, by which it receives and pro- jects the Blood with great Inequality. In Paroxyfms of this Diftemper, the Pérfon feels fuch a Hurry and Tumult of the Spirits, and fuch a Confufion of Ideas | R 2 in