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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    [ 36 ] The propriety of thus extending the queftion, will, Ihope, be evident, as it willfcarcely be difputed, that preven- tion is preferable to remedy. Another rule or canon depends on that aftitude or diffofition of the mind, to combine ideas together in fuck a manner, that the recollettion of the one brings the other to the mind, and often, in confequence thereof, re-produces fimilar effects, to what the original idea had done when fil ex- cited *, Numerous inftances of this might be produced, but they are too familar to _ # ‘There is a wonderful property inherent in our minds, by which we are enabled to conneé& ideas by means of figns, which are merely arbitrary, and which bear no obvious or affignable fimilitude to the fubje&t of the ideas. Notwith- ftanding this, thefe figns have the power of immediately re- calling the correfponding idea to the mind. Van Swieten. Comm. Vol. I. p. 148. the