Of the imagination, as a cause and as a cure of disorders of the body; exemplified by fictitious tractors, and epidemical convulsions. Read to the Literary and Philosophical Society of Bath / by John Haygarth.
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- 1800
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Credit: Of the imagination, as a cause and as a cure of disorders of the body; exemplified by fictitious tractors, and epidemical convulsions. Read to the Literary and Philosophical Society of Bath / by John Haygarth. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![/ OBSERVATIONS. 39 fhrieks, and liftening to an account of their fuffer- ings, feelingly and frightfully defcribcd. Of this kind of convulfive epidemicks may be reckoned that which afflifted the female inhabitants in the (hire of Angus in Scotland, about the year 1763 or 1764, above-mentioned. A like nervous diflemper appears to have vifited various parts of Germany about the \ year 1717.* The famous epidemick of Sweden,| afcribed by LiNNiEus to eating charlock, may pof- fibly be in fome degree propagated in like manner. 3. Fevers, accompanied with violent convulfions, fometimes become epidemical, and both diftempers may noffibly be propagated by contagion. Examples of this kind are recorded by Willis,;|: to have happened in England about the year 1661; by Muller,§ in Germany, about the year 1741 j and by Barailon,)] in France, in 1774. * Waldfchemed de morbo epidemico convulfivo per Holftatiam grafTante 1717. Apud Halleri Difp. ccliv. T. vii. p.*5i8. Wedel de morbo fpafmodico maligno in Saxonia, Lidatia, See. 1717. Apud Hall. Difp. cclv. T. vii. p. 551. t Memoires de la Soc.Roy. de Med. a Paris, T. i. Mem. p. 319. J Willis de fpafmis univerfalibus, qui in febribus malignis male judicads, et quibusdam anomalis excitare folent. § Muller de morbis epidemicis fpafmodicis 1741. Apud Halleri Difp. vi. T. i. p. 78. II Sur une efpece d’ epilepfie qui rcconnoit pour caufe le virus exanthematique miliare. Hift. de la Societe Royale de Medicine a Paris, T. i. p. 227. See alfo Mem. de la Societe Royale de Medicine, T. i. p. 303. Thcfe](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21949037_0045.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
