Gateway Cities and Other Essays

CONCEALMENT AND EXPOSURE And Other Essays

Essays on Hypochondriasis, and Other Nervous Affections

timents, and shews that the zeal of improvement may sometimes, even in the best concerns, be carried beyond the bounds of discretion, and that regulations and institutions, which we may think evil or unnecessary, may be both salutary and advisable. " The observance of fasts is a wholesome form of superstition. The omission of them in the Protestant calender, was, perhaps, as it relates to healt...

The medical dictator and other biographical essays

Essays on Hypochondriacal and Other Nervous Affections

even by the sternest stoic, or the most subtle metaphysician, has attained universal assent, rather as an article of sensation than of science ; as being the compulsion of experience, more than the result of enquiry. Some men may call in question the liberty of the human will ; and others may weave a fine spun chain of arguments against the existence of matter and the reality of an external wor...

Love+marriage=death: and other essays on representing difference

coroners and juries. Even within the medical profession, there was disagreement whether medical knowledge should come from a practitioner acquainted with the victim during life or from a specialist who knew only the dead body. As Burney shows through an ingenious discussion of the tools of post-mortem examination, the more sophisticated and specialized the medical intervention became, the more ...