Elements of the practice of physic, for the use of gentlemen who attend lectures on that subject.
- William Saunders
- Date:
- 1784
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Elements of the practice of physic, for the use of gentlemen who attend lectures on that subject. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.
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![Of I N S a N- I T Y. It is diftinguifhed into the melancholia and mania ; the firft is infanity with fadnefs, the mind generally relling on one objeitj the fecond ac- companied with ungovernable fury ; in fome inla- iiity is continued, in others it is periodical. The melancholia is moft frequent in the dull and ftudious, and thofe who have fufFered by re- peated misfortunes and difappointments. The mania is more frequent with thofe who are irafcible, chearful, young, fanguineous, ple- thojic, and in fome who have a dry tenie animal Sbre. u f 1 The remote caufes may be referred to the tol- lowins; ^ u ]. The mind too intenfely diredted to one ob- iea, paffions of the mind, fuch as grief, fadnefs, fear, ioy, hope, and more efpecially love, falle terrors of the deity, immoderate venery, pre- ceding febrile diforders, violent evacuations, or the fuppreffion of natural ones. A fedentary life, and frequently an hereditary conformation of parts. In cafes of melancholia the alimentary canal is chiefly afFefted, and the prtediipofing caufes are frequently the fame with thofe taken notice of m the fubiedfs of hyjleria and hypcchondriacum malum. In the melancholia the patient is timid, watch- ful, deieaed, addided without a caufe to anger, variable in his temper, folicitous about trifles, fometimes avaricious, at other times pro uic , the body is coftive, urine pale and 'n tity, oppreflion on the praecordia, with flatuiency, frequent vomiting of acrid bile, pale countenance, flow pulfe, a keen appetite, a credulous verted imagination, anticipating evils, follov.cU by fuicide. In](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21522273_0260.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
