Volume 2

Observations on the nature, causes, and cure, of those disorders, which have been commonly called nervous, hypochondriac, or hysteric. To which are prefixed, some remarks on the sympathy of the nerves / By Robert Whytt.

  • Whytt, Robert, 1714-1766.
Date:
1765
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Credit: Observations on the nature, causes, and cure, of those disorders, which have been commonly called nervous, hypochondriac, or hysteric. To which are prefixed, some remarks on the sympathy of the nerves / By Robert Whytt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    involuntary Motions of Animals, may be of ufe in explaining the nature of feveral difeafes, and confequently, in leading to the moft proper method of CULE Me cha eae SINCE, in Seth every difeafe, the nerves fuffer more or lefs, and there are very few diforders which may not in a large fenfe bé called nervous, it’ might be thought that-a treatife on ner- vous difeafes fhould comprehend almoit all the complaints to which the human. body is liable. The defign, however, of the following Obfervations is far dif- ferent. In them, it 1s only propofed to treat of thofe diforders, which in a peculiar fenfe deferve the name of nervous, in fo far as they are, ina great meafure, owing to an uncommon delicacy Or unnatural fenfibility of the nerves, and. are therefore obferved chiefly to affect perfons of fuch a conftitution. é As * See aa Effay on the vital, &c. motions, edit. 1ft, p. 390. .