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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    [ 48] re{ulted from it. “Thus * gout, palfy, dumbnefs, have all been removed by paroxyfms of rage, and life itfelf evi- dently prolonged feveral days. Hope is alfo a ftimulating paflion, but of the milder kind. Its effects are to excite moderately the ftrength and powers both of the body and mind, cand direét them to their proper objeéts. No ill effects, that I can learn, have ever refulted from it. ; So far on the ftimulating paffions: let us now turn to thofe of the debilitating kind. Fear is evidently one of thefe. Under its influence the force + of the heart 1s diminifhed, and the pulfe ren- * Tbidem. Halleri. eli + Van Swieten. Vol. IIL p. 271, and Vol. I. p. 148. dered