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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    r 4h] far above thofe to which the ftrength feemed adequate, and has even pro- tracted death itfelf. When very in- tenfe, it is faid to have produced * epilepfy, and by exciting irregular mo- tions of the heart an + aneurifm of the aorta. Anger is another of the ftimulating, though it can fcarcely be termed with propriety, one of the } pleafurable paf- fions. it ¥ Hoffm. Medic. Confult. C. IV. D. I. C. 6. + Haller. Phyf Vol. V. p. 582. } It was neverthelefs fo ftyled by fome of the Poets and Philofophers of Antiquity, as by Plato and Homer. See Plato’s Philebus. It is pleafant to be angry, fays Ariftotle. Ariftotle’s Rhetoric. 2.7), Gi | There is a certain degree of pleafure attending upon anger, which is founded on the hopes of revenge. Ariftotle’s Rhetoric. dt if. C. Il. Antoninus