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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER THE FOURTH. THE CONSEQUENCES OF MELANCHOLY. f I 'HE Consequences which the difeafe of -- melancholy produces, are the fymptoms and prognoftics, or, in other terms, the effects which follow from the caufes already defcribed. Parr- ba/ius, the celebrated Grecian painter, purchafed, among thofe Olynthian captives which Philip of Mace don brought home to fell, a ftrong, athletic, but extreme old man, and put him to the moft violent agonies that the fevereft tortures could inflict, in order, by the writhings and contortions of his body, the better to exprefs the pains and paffions of The Prometheus which he was then about to paint: but the effeiSs and confequences of a melancholy habit are fo ftrongly delineated upon both the body and the mind, that no fuch ingenious, but inhuman, cruelty is neceflary to defcribe the fymptoms of this torturing difeafe. The herb tortocolla is faid to produce the-different effects of laughing, crying, fleeping, dancing, finging, howling, and drinking, on different conftitutions; and in like manner the various caufes which produce melancho- ly, work in different habits innumerable and op- pofite fymptoms; but various and complicated as they are, they may be aptly defcribed in fuch as affect The Body, and fuch as affectTHE Mind. The confequencesof thisdifeafe, upon the body, are leannefs, a withered fkin, hollow eyes, a wrinkled forehead, a dejected viiage, harfh features, cholicy complaints, eructations, finging in the ears, twinkling of the eyes, vertigo in the head, a palpitation of the heart, a faultering fpeech, laughing, grinning', fleering, murmuring, blufhing, trembling, foliloquy, fobbing, fwooning, a depraved and indifferent appetite, bad digeftion, a flow and timid pulfe, except it be of the camtides, which is very ftron...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217019194 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217019196 |
| Weight | 0.65 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.45 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 196 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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