Volume 1

A dissertation on the influence of the passions upon disorders of the body. Being the essay to which the Fothergillian Medal was adjudged / [William Falconer].

  • William Falconer
Date:
1796
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Credit: A dissertation on the influence of the passions upon disorders of the body. Being the essay to which the Fothergillian Medal was adjudged / [William Falconer]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 2h] his pain down the fteps, and placed him at laft on the ground. The man thus treated, immediately recovered the ufe of his limbs, and ran up the ftairs again with great fwiftnefs and under the ftrongeft impreflions of terror. After this * incident, he lived many years free from any fvmptoms of the gout. | | A different and indeed oppofite paflion, in a good meafure to the former, has, we are told, produced the fame effeéts. A perfon, who had for forty years been afflicted with the gout, was condemned to capital punifhment, and - in confequence thereof led to execu- tion, Juft when he expeéted death, he * Van Swicten. Vol. IV. p. 307; re