The oeconomy of health, or, A medical essay: containing ... instructions for the attainment of health, happiness and longevity / [Andrew Harper].
- Harper, Andrew, -1790
- Date:
- [1789]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The oeconomy of health, or, A medical essay: containing ... instructions for the attainment of health, happiness and longevity / [Andrew Harper]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[stig 7] of Imagination is often found to be a funer- ficial Quality, and on a Level enh; oh the Depth of Memory. . But if a wan and teeming Imagination be united with Solidity of Judgment, and profound Pene- tration, it befpeaks the happieft and nobleft sigs gain of the human Syftem. The Mind is exceedingly fufceptible of the two oppofite Perceptions, Hope, and Fear. They are the quick-born Offspring of Imagination, ‘begotten by the Idea of Pleafure, or Pain, whofe Familiarity, and Intimacy always afford them maliat Accefs to her Embraces. ae It. will then manifeftly. appear that the Influence of Imagination, fo far as regards the Caufe and Cure of Difeafes, is nothing but the Effect of Hope, or Fear. But thefe Effects have been already explained in treating of the Paffions. It muft, there- fore, be obvious whence a healthy Man may be frightened into a Fever, and a dying Perfon, ina Manner, quickened into | Life,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33290660_0083.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
