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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    [ si] Opium too, which has been, intro- duced into * praétice of late years in the nervous fever, and frequently ad- miniftered, and in pretty large dofes, is well known to exert great cordial + effeGis on the mind and fpirits. The accounts given of its efficacy in this way among the Turks, and other na- tions that are habituated to its ufe, prove this fufficiently, and it is pro- _ bably owing entirely to this effeét of it upon the nervous fyftem, that it becomes ufeful- in this complaint. t Galen feems to have recommended theriaca, which is well known to be no more than an opiate combined * Wall on the ufe of Opium in low Fevers. + Rutty Mat. Med. Murray Apparatus Medicaminum. Bergii Mat. Med. “Cartheufer Mat. Med. Rujfel’s Hift. of Aleppo. p. 84. Haffel- quif?’s Travels. } De theriaca ad Pifones. D 4- | with