Pathological inquiries, or, An attempt to explain the phenomena of disease, and philosophically to direct the methods of cure / By George Smith Gibbes.

  • George Smith Gibbes
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[1818]
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Credit: Pathological inquiries, or, An attempt to explain the phenomena of disease, and philosophically to direct the methods of cure / By George Smith Gibbes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    G6 rri'tioti; iby tiilipr niiooniroulablp, nnd forming nssociations. Tl)f! oim is fX’livp, ai;(J i.-, nxcrti'd from tis—tlie oth.-ris inler- iml, find j,ro(liic(>s liy.fi'.sooiniioti nil those links wliicli the nctive mind liriti'rs iorlli and mes with re,-..■on an I jtidjrinfcnt. All inir n.*UM)n f.-idi's m ii!i th<* one ; dreams, reveries, and mconneoted ideie, ns in mndi,\<s, A c. in the other. When therefore we have fatisned ■ •dvcs awdonr bodies, nti I their po\xers have exhausted f eir -'ai’idy, the aeiive mind recedes, comes into th * of lii * a”-o.;iatiii;;; mir’il, find oar irletis have not ativ reasonable eoai.eeijp;,^ loiiowinir only the as- sociations, (Iretims, or is iib.orlred in reverit*s, 1 lie refre.s.iment and rejitdr v.’];;eii the hmt'tjn frame exne- rience.s from heiilthfiil sUea, va uh! le;id ns to expect that some alleviation most acciiiefiom similar suspensions of the active and controidnble mind. It wimld appejir from the abaiemem of symptoms which takes pbace when th- mind Iweomes disord -red, (hat sleep, nnder all its varied forms till tiie phenomena assume the eliar;;cier of deli-iniii and insa- any, is re.storative, tends to i.roloti- the dnnith.ii of the con- .siituiion, and is one mwins adopted l.v n.iti.re to allow a Mtpply of power nneailed for in me direction, to b'emnloved m the restoration anil repair of (h.* bodilv framm This e^ent sacrifice ts not called for Imt nnd-r exi'reme rircimismnces • and these circumstances do not occur in good oonstitutions nnless broken down and exhtu;s,ed bv ctmses which oo li fraTiie'* of the bodily tTire w2 enii?cV^l reenmhent pos- Man.h“n;;;:hng5r!;;;‘^ nndbydrothorax were well matked became insane ; the voice which linH i ^ distinct and edear • d.o i V ^ •’^oiire was loud, performed tbir functionrSl'hJdlHt?’^'''r‘'-’ which had resisted all meanK of regularity ; thesore.s i- short, all liodil If I'^'ftk'd of them.sclves- ntained deranged in iutellecf for -thf T*'’