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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    the immediate confequence, as the vital fun€tions are, we fuppofe, main- tained only by repeated irritations. I mean, however, only to fay, that the mental funétions are fufpended to a certain degree during fleep. Dreams and other fenfations prove, that the fenfes are not altogether inactive. But we fhould at the fame time reflect, that fleep admits of feveral degrees, and that its moft perfeét and natural ftate approaches * nearly to that of total in- fenfi- expreffed fimilar fentiments QJ]. ‘* Sleep fays Cicero is the image and refemblance of death.” ‘* Nothing is fo like to death as fleep.” @€ Mortis imago et fimulachrum. eft fomnus, Cic. I. Puke .o2. °°, Nihil morti eft tam fimile quam fomnus. De Sene€tute 80. * In that ftate, (namely of fleep) the body is lefs liable to be excited, as the fleep is more perfeét; thofe ftimuli which affe&t the fenfes, as thofe of found, or itching of the fkin, , are a