A dissertation on the influence of the passions upon disorders of the body / by William Falconer, M.D. F. R. S. and corresponding member of the Medical Society of London. Being the essay to which the Fothergillian Medal was adjudged.

  • William Falconer
Date:
1788
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Credit: A dissertation on the influence of the passions upon disorders of the body / by William Falconer, M.D. F. R. S. and corresponding member of the Medical Society of London. Being the essay to which the Fothergillian Medal was adjudged. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ io5 ] der,' he difdained to be the Have of caprice. His reputation was raifed by better means, than by fervile compliance with vice or folly. Much more might be faid upon this fubject, but it is, I truft, unnecefTary. The general character of Dr. Fothergill is too recent in the memory of thofe to whom this work is addreffed, to require being enlarged upon by fuch a feeble hand; and thofe who wifh for more particular information may receive full fatisfaction from an elegant as well as accurate biographical account already pre- fented to the world. Many acknowledgments are due from the public at large, and par- ticularly from this refpedlable fociety, to the founder of the prefent inftitution. He has raifed a monument to gratitude and friend- Ihip on the broad bafis of public benefit. May fo benevolent and fcientific an attempt profper, and may the author receive, as part of his reward, the fatisfaction of feeing nu- merous profefibrs of the healing art, and the members of this fociety in particular, ftimu- lated by this honourable diftinftion to emu- late with greater ardor, the medical virtues, as well as knowledge, of Dr. Fothergill. FINIS.