Thoughts on the production and formation of animal bodies ... : with the natural cause of the recovery of persons apparently dead by drowning.
- Joseph Taylor
- Date:
- [1795?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Thoughts on the production and formation of animal bodies ... : with the natural cause of the recovery of persons apparently dead by drowning. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ « ] ing, to forward digfcftion. If the mind be taken tip with the refolution of ftudy, this determines the animal fpirits towards the brain, wherefore Nature defigns them at that time, for the ufe aforefaid.— It is alfo obfervable that we digeft better in winter than fummer; becaufe in winter, to drive away the fenfe of cold, we are often put upon exerci fes and greater a&ivity, than in the fummer feafon; as iikewife the mufcies and folid parts are more denfe and firm, confequentiy ftronger in their contra&i- ons and aftra&ions. There are fome perfons, who by too intenfean application to ftudy, are difordered in their fenfes and deprived of reafon, which proceeds from the mind or cogitative faculty being taken up with dark and abftrufe queftions, or the like, which caufe the animal fpirits to flow abundantly to the brain, whereby they become worfe than idiots; which is from want of amufement or exercife of fome kind, to vanquifh thofe gloomy obje&s from the'mind, which certainly is the caufe of fuch deplorable cir* cumftances. The mind being too intent upon any objeft (as is evident by fome feemingly religious perfons), by the too intenfe ftudy of that before them, their underftandings become cloudy and darkened, whereby they are difordered not only in mind, but alfo it preys upon the nerves, and affe&s the whole body. It is indeed a lamentable cafe, that nothing in the creation can withdraw their at¬ tention from this fo rigorous a ftudy. Lest](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30347440_0035.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
