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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    f 32] has expreffed himfelf on the fame fub- jeét in terms nearly fimilar. The next rule or canon is, I appre- hend, only the converfe of the former ; namely, that when the action of the mind is diminifhed or weakened to a certain de- gree, flech necefarily follows, and pro- bably, could we remove all impreilions upon the corporeal, as well as upon the mental fenfations,- death * muit be. | : the’ * Sleep and death have been compared together, bya variety of writers in all ages; fo univerfal and fo natural has been the idea of their conne€tion. To fleep is ufed as fynonymous with to die repeatedly, both in the old * and new + Teftament. Sleep is called the brcther or near relation of death, both by Homer { and Virgil |], and the neighbour or adjun@ of death in the Orphic Hymns §. Philofophical writers have * Book of Kings, paffim. + Acts of the Apoft. VII. 60. Epift. to the Corinth. Lr ev.'6. { ure xacvyinrw Savaroo. Iliad, XIV. a || Confanguineus Leti Sopor. AEneid, VI. 278. § vmves yevrov rou Savarou. Hymni Orphic. B 4 exprefied