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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    T 6] GENUS CVI. NOSTALGIA. ‘DHE laft, and perhaps the moft. re- markable inftance of the effects of the paflions of the mind upon the bo- dy, is that of the noftalgia, or that defire of revifiting their own country when eftranged from it, fo particu- larly prevalent among the Swifs, and to a certain degree among all na- tions, thofe efpecially where the go- vernment is moderate, free and hap- py. This diforder is faid to begin * with melancholy, fadnefs, love of foli- * Sauvages Nofol. Meth. Art. Noftalgia, G 6 tude,