An essay on diseases incidental to literary and sedentary persons. With proper rules for preventing their fatal consequences. And instructions for their cure / By S.A. Tissot. Now first translated into English.

  • Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David), 1728-1797
Date:
1768
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Credit: An essay on diseases incidental to literary and sedentary persons. With proper rules for preventing their fatal consequences. And instructions for their cure / By S.A. Tissot. Now first translated into English. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    feem furprifing, if, when the tenor of the brain and nerves is broken by the efforts of the mind,. the latter fhould decline in its turn? Firft of all it is depriv’d of its fortitude; dif- truft, terror, and melancholy, feize upon it; and he who would have ftood undaunted amidft a falling world a few months before, is every moment fill’d with terror and confternation, as foon as his nerves are affected by a hypochondriac diforder. Relentlefs tyrants may have condemn’d to death philofophers whom they hated; but it never was in their power to fubject them to the dread of death, which they had long fhaken off. O how much more cruel would they have been, if they had granted them their lives, and had it in their power to torment their minds with hypochon- driacal terrors! | Thus