Essays on hypochondriasis, and other nervous affections / by John Reid.

  • John Reid
Date:
1821
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Credit: Essays on hypochondriasis, and other nervous affections / by John Reid. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    moral character is ailded perhaps the loss of health. Easily disgusted, and as incapable of excitirjg as of feeling sympathy, he remains solitary and deserted, although surrounded by all the goods of the earth. How frequently has it happened to me to meet with men, who having without merit risen to the highest honors and offices, were discontented with their lot, and complaining bitterly of the unfeelingness of others, forgetting that themselves were to blame for it. Surely, such a favorite of fortune is rather an object of compassion than of envy. The unfortunate man who has not been too heavily oppressed, nor his energies too much worn by cala- mity, will find it less difficult, than it is to the pros- perous, to travel through life without stumbling. The want of exterior attractions opens to him the source of a more intellectual and refined existence, and gives him even here the foretaste of a better and a future one. In proportion as ho is deprived of earthly comforts, do those of a heavenly nature shine more clearly and brightly to him. Should men refuse him their sympathy, yet silent nature will afford to his feelings, softened as they are by sorrow, joys which the happy know nothing of, but which they would envy him, had they once tasted them. Accustomed to privations, he is little shaken by the vicissitudes of fortune; and being free from the moan anxieties of pride and ambition, he becomes not indeed indiffe- rent to earthly good, but easily consoled under its loss.
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