Observations on maniacal disorders / By William Pargeter, M.D.

  • Pargeter, William, 1760-1810.
Date:
1792
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Credit: Observations on maniacal disorders / By William Pargeter, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    met with an idea fo precifely equal to the hor¬ ror with which fuch a truly wicked character fhould be confidered, as the fentiment of this^ couplet. « Which if in HELL no other pains there were, _ i Makes one fear HELL, becaufe HE muft be there.” * I , .. g . * _ Vv. a , ! . * .' • Before I difmifs this point, it may not be improper to adduce an ancient and hiftorical fad: or two. Anti oc bus > the fon of Seleucus, would have funk under the weight of his dis¬ order, had not the penetration of the attentive; JLraJijiratus, his phyfician, difcovered that he was pining away through love of the fair Stra- tonice.—Plutarch, in Demetrio. And the fa- ther of Phyfic could not have faved Per dice as, King of the Macedonians, had he not found that his diforder, which by every one elfe, was deemed a confumption, proceeded from an ex- cefs of paffion for the lovely Phylds, one of his father’s concubines: “ Ex cujus confpedu il¬ ium prorfus immutari animadvertit et regem fanitati reilituit.”—Soranus in vita Hippocrat. CASE