An attempt to explain, on natural principles, the cures, alleged to be miraculous, of Miss Lalor and Mrs. Stuart : with an appendix, containing cases and illustrations / by a physician [Sir Philip Crampton].

  • Sir Philip Crampton, 1st Baronet
Date:
1823
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Credit: An attempt to explain, on natural principles, the cures, alleged to be miraculous, of Miss Lalor and Mrs. Stuart : with an appendix, containing cases and illustrations / by a physician [Sir Philip Crampton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which the depressing passions induce in the heart, 1 select one case out of a great number of similar ones, from the valu¬ able work of M. Corvisart. Obs. 20. A farrier, aged about forty-one, of a robust con¬ stitution, experienced some severe afflictions, which, for a time, deprived him of the use of his reason ; he soon began to suffer from those symptoms which announce the formation of organic disease of the heart (here the symptoms are described at length ;) he died on the day of his admission into the hospital. then follows a detailed account of the appearances which were observed on opening the body: the heart was soft,flaccid, and extenuated, molle etflasque et ses parois etaient amincies. * I trust that I have made out my case to the satisfaction of “The surgeon,” both as to the “ disorganized liver, the tuber- culated lungs, and the flaccid and extenuated heartand I persuade myself that he will feel that by answering his appeal in this way, rather than by retorting charges of “ ignorance and presumption,” I have best consulted the interests of science, and the respect which is due from the members of a liberal profession towards each other. Note C. Perhaps the best illustration which can be given of the almost unbounded influence of the imagination over the functions of the animal economy, is supplyed by the following interesting fact in natural history, which is related by Captain Franklin, in his “Journey to the Polar Sea:”—A young Chipewyan had separated from the rest of his band, for the purpose of trenching beaver, when his wife, who was his sole companion, and in her first pregnancy, was seized with the pains of labour. * p. 104.
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