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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    application to ftudy, was immediately feiz'd by a terrible vertigo, if he hap- pen’d to liften attentively to a perfon telling a ftory. He likewife complain- ed, that nothing could give him greater uneafinefs than his attempting to recall the memory of any thing, for then he was put to the greateft pain imaginable, and fometimes feizd with a fainting fit, attended with a fenfe of extreme laffitude. Nor could he defift- from his effort after he had once begun it, though he labour’d ever fo much for that purpofe; but was under a necef- fity of proceeding as he had begun, till he fainted away (e). The illu trious ViripeT, formerly my fellow- citizen, knéw a woman who, when- ever fhe us’d any application of mind, (e) Van SwiETEN’s Comment, in BOERHA- vil aphor. Tom. III. p. 413. C was