Essays on insanity, hypochondriasis, and other nervous affections / by John Reid, M.D.

  • Reid, John, 1776-1822.
Date:
1816
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Credit: Essays on insanity, hypochondriasis, and other nervous affections / by John Reid, M.D. 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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    didates for our attention as to preclude the exclusive dominion of any single idea. Although a man be not concerned as an actor in the gay or the more serious tumults of the world, he may find, as a simple spectator, sufficient engagement to prevent that dejection of mind which is apt to arise from its being unemployed. Even walking the streets of London affords abundant materials for amuse- ment and reflection. A rage for rural charms is at the pre- sent day a matter more perhaps of fashion than of feeling. A pretended relish for the beauties of the country is found to be by no means incompatible with a real attachment to vices which are considered as appropriate to the town ; although in fact the most de- grading kinds of vice are at least as pre- valent at a distance from, as in the centre of the capital. Intemperance