A treatise of the hypochondriack and hysterick passions, vulgarly call'd the hypo in men and vapours in women ... The whole interspers'd with instructive discourses on the real art of physick it self; and entertaining remarks on the modern practice of physicians and apothecaries / [B. M (Bernard Mandeville)].

Bernard Mandeville

Date:: 1715

Credit: A treatise of the hypochondriack and hysterick passions, vulgarly call'd the hypo in men and vapours in women ... The whole interspers'd with instructive discourses on the real art of physick it self; and entertaining remarks on the modern practice of physicians and apothecaries / [B. M (Bernard Mandeville)]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$| ( ^ 59 ) ] unconceivable fwiftnefs to penetrate every I cranny of the Brain, then certainly our 3 Spirits are at work, and the more fix’d land intenfe our Thoughts are,the greater, without doubt, is the watte of Spirits : It is with our Thoughts, as it is with our Eyes. The latter we keep open without i any trouble all Day long, and if we walk j abroad we fee the Houfes, People, Coaches, 3 Streets and Horfes all at once 5 but this I does not hurt or weary the Eyes fo much, 1 as when we central the Sight, and dire* I aing it to a particular place, keep it em» [ploy'd in examining feme very Minute i Points ; as is manifeft in Engravers, Pain- jj ters in Miniature, and others whofe bufinels y requiring a nicety of Sight, generally fjj prove prejudicial to their Eyes 3 and daily »:■ Experience {hews us that thofe, who Read tl and Write much, are foooer forc’d to wear q Speftacles than other People. ;] Mtfom. This I fuppofe the Phyficians in q Spain take for granted ^ who, thos they n are never fo Young, hardly ever ftir with- jl out Speftacles, and have them fatten’d cto their Heads even when they ride H broad. Phil. I don't queftion, but they would 1,'(hint with it to the World, that the fe- I verity . ■ ?$

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