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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    L338] exciting * others in their room, both thefe intentions are comprehended in the queftion as above expreffed, and fo I prefume it is to be underftood. I mean to go even a ftep farther, and extend it to thofe paffions or affections of the mind, which we would with to prevent being excited at all. * Hence prudent Phyficians are careful to remove, and that without the-knowledge of the Patient, every object which may tend to recal thefe ideas to the mind, whether fuch ebje&t acts by producing any immediate impreffion on the fenfes, or more remotely by caufing the recolle€tion of cir- cumftances conneéted with fuch ideas) When other objects of attention are prefented in order to produce new ideas, which may gradually leffen or eradicate the former violent impref- fion, the mind is faid to be diverted. It is neceffary for this purpofe that the train of thoughts fhould at all events be if poTible interrupted, leaft the fame fet of ideas fhould by long pof- {effing the mind occupy it completely, in which cafe it would be impoffible to eradicate them. Van Swieten. Vol. I. p. 49. B 6 The