A view of the nervous temperament : being a practical enquiry into the increasing prevalence, prevention, and treatment of those diseases commonly called nervous, bilious, stomach and liver complaints; indigestion; low spirits; gout, &c. / by Thomas Trotter.

  • Trotter, Thomas, 1760-1832.
Date:
1807
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Credit: A view of the nervous temperament : being a practical enquiry into the increasing prevalence, prevention, and treatment of those diseases commonly called nervous, bilious, stomach and liver complaints; indigestion; low spirits; gout, &c. / by Thomas Trotter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    with the Roman worthies of the old republic All the Latin claflics abound with beautiful eulogies on ruftic manners, fcenery and recrea- tion, particularly Virgil, Horace, and Pliny the younger. The greateft man whom modern ages have produced, George Wafhington, Efq^ was of this fchool. How much nobler was it ta retire from the command of a vidorious army, after fecuring the independence of his country, for the ftudy of nature in his own farm, than to hve in a city to learn excife laws, and fqueeze taxes from induflry, to pay profligate favorites, and unprofitable wars^ How mean and con- temptible the upflart emperor of France ap- pears, wlren compared with this truly chriftian hero, the friend and admiration of human kind !- The difeafes of a labouring and a£live pea- fantry, cfr of thofe of any condition of man- kind, expofed to the weather in all feafons, are almoft confined to the inflammatory clafs; fuch as pleurify, acute rheumatifm, catarrh, cynanche, &c. Thefe depend on a vigorous vital power, a rigid fibre, and a florid denfe blood: they are a directly oppofite Hate of the fyftem to what predifpofes to nervous . difeafes. No kind of diet comes wrong to the