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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    of the candidates for literary honour, after having purfu’d his ftudies with ‘the moft arduous application both day and night, through a too great attention to his oration, that he might be able to fay it accurately by heart, was fud- denly feiz’d with a catalepfy and fell down (p). The labour of the mind not only ‘produces nervous diforders, but, by means of the nerves, gives rife to other complaints. An eminent mathemati- ‘cian, who was troubled with an he- reditary gout, and had always liv’d ‘foberly and chaftely, haften’d a paro- -xyfm by applying a long time to the folution of a difficult problem (¢). And the cafe of the chevalier DE PER- (p) Felic. PLATERE obfervat. p. 28. (gq) Van SWIETEN, tom. IV. p. 305. NAY