Observations on the Importance, in Purchases of Land and in Mercantile Adventures, of Ascertaining the Rates Or Laws of Mortality Among Europeans by Chronic Diseases and Hot Climates ...J. A. Hessey, 1826 - 102 pages |
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... brain , to indicate madness . The best observations are strong on this point . Greding , Pinel , and Haslam , all agree . The observations of Bonetus , Morgagni and others , so carefully collected by Arnold , and noticed by Crighton and ...
... brain , to indicate madness . The best observations are strong on this point . Greding , Pinel , and Haslam , all agree . The observations of Bonetus , Morgagni and others , so carefully collected by Arnold , and noticed by Crighton and ...
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... brain itself to show it to be the seat of thought . Spurz- heim , it is true , holds that the faculties of the mind are double , and says , that each hemisphere of the brain contains a distinct set , and quotes Tiedman for the case of a ...
... brain itself to show it to be the seat of thought . Spurz- heim , it is true , holds that the faculties of the mind are double , and says , that each hemisphere of the brain contains a distinct set , and quotes Tiedman for the case of a ...
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... brains , and that writers of books on insanity should im- pute to them miseries which they never expe- rienced . " " What is meant by the deliria to which men of genius are peculiarly subject , I am unable , from want of sufficient ...
... brains , and that writers of books on insanity should im- pute to them miseries which they never expe- rienced . " " What is meant by the deliria to which men of genius are peculiarly subject , I am unable , from want of sufficient ...
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... late period of life , and might have had a still longer existence , had not insanity supervened . Insanity tends to propel an undue quantity of blood to the brain , and in the majority who have died , the termina- 21.
... late period of life , and might have had a still longer existence , had not insanity supervened . Insanity tends to propel an undue quantity of blood to the brain , and in the majority who have died , the termina- 21.
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... brain , his disease will instantly become palpable . 66 A beautiful illustration of this is contained in the writings of Dr. Johnson , where the astrono- mer is admired as a person of sound intellect by Imlac , who always finds ...
... brain , his disease will instantly become palpable . 66 A beautiful illustration of this is contained in the writings of Dr. Johnson , where the astrono- mer is admired as a person of sound intellect by Imlac , who always finds ...
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Page 32 - tis fittest. Cor. How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty? Lear. You do me wrong, to take me out o' the grave. — Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.
Page 40 - I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.
Page 44 - But I am very sorry, good Horatio, That to Laertes I forgot myself; For by the image of my cause I see The portraiture of his: I'll court his favours: But, sure, the bravery of his grief did put me Into a towering passion.
Page 32 - Methinks I should know you, and know this man; Yet I am doubtful: for I am mainly ignorant What place this is; and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night.
Page 40 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory...
Page 26 - Hear, Nature, hear ! dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her ! If she must teem...
Page 41 - The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Page 27 - Hear, Nature, hear! dear goddess, hear! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful. Into her womb convey sterility; Dry up in her the organs of increase; And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her! If she must teem, Create her child of spleen, that it may live And be a thwart disnatur'd torment to her.
Page 39 - O that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!
Page 58 - Turk: false of heart, light of ear, bloody of hand; hog in sloth, fox in stealth, wolf in greediness, dog in madness, lion in prey. Let not the creaking of shoes nor the rustling of silks betray thy poor heart to woman: keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend.