Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Arbuthnot, John (bap. 1677, d. 1735)

Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus

Dublin

Printed by and for George Faulkner

1741

"But being weary of all practice on fetid bodies, from a certain niceness of constitution (especially when he attended Dr. Woodward through a twelve-months' course of vomition) he determined to leave it off entirely, and to apply himself only to diseases of the mind."

But being weary of all practice on fetid bodies, from a certain niceness of constitution (especially when he attended Dr. Woodward through a twelve-months' course of vomition) he determined to leave it off entirely, and to apply himself only to diseases of the mind. He attempted to find out the specifics for all the passions; and, as other physicians throw their patients into sweats, vomits, purgations, etc. he cast them into love, hatred, hope fear, joy, grief, etc. And indeed the great irregularity of the passions in the English nation was the chief motive that induced him to apply his whole studies, while he continued among us, to the diseases of the mind.
(Chapter X, pp. 51-2)

Body::Disease

Reading

At least 16 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1741, 1742, 1752, 1756, 1757, 1758, 1761, 1764, 1766, 1767, 1768, 1772, 1774, 1778, 1779, 1789). Republished in the Works of Pope and of Swift.

See Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus. By Mr. Pope (Dublin: Printed by and for George Faulkner, 1741). <Link to ECCO-TCP>

Reading Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus (London: Hesperus Press, 2002). [From which much of my text was originally transcribed.]

05/18/2004