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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    6C_ 6c [190] eyes lofe their brilliancy ; flow deep haufted; the fecretions and excre- tions are irregular; hyfteria, hypo- chondriafis, dropfy, tabes, or fatal marafmus enfue. But grief in excefs has imitated the violent efforts of anger, and terminated in phreni- tis, apoplexy, mania, or fuicide. “ Love, the moft univerfal and grate- ful paffion of human nature, which, in general, neither aflumes the vie- lence of anger, nor finks into the depreffion of grief, may be conf- dered as a temperate paflion; but in its victflitudes and extremes, ae- the defpondency of the latter, like the fury of -Potiphar’s wife againft Jofeph, or the infinuating folicitude of Ruth towards Boaz. In Love, in pra