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nerves originated from the brain ; and I verily believe that-he did possess this information , though he has not displayed it in any of his poems . He uses " nervusf for a bow-string , nerve , or tendon , pror miscuously ; and once , in the th Mneid , by the phrase , numerosquz iniendere nervis , he clearly means the strings of a musical instrument ; and , indeed , all the Roman writers use the word in the same ambi-Greek words and ' VEI ^ I were both
guous sense . For as the two vsugov of them expressed bv the single word " nervus , " that appellation was used in more different senses than almost any other in the Latin language . But I think . that Horace had more insight into the nervous system " and was a much better physician than Virgil . What think ; you of the following ?
Bictaque c ' es ' santem nervis elidere morbum Sulpbura . - . ' ¦ « Sulp hureous waters said to disperse the malady lingering on the nerves ! " And can any language better express what is now called in the fashionable " phrase , a slow nervous disorder ? -That sulphureous * waters are friendly to the nerves , was an antient doctrine 5 and this is in some measure confirmed by the action of the bath watersso very salutary to the nervous influence . For , whatever
, the wit or ridicule of Dr . Lucas may have suggested to the contrary , the waters of all the different hot baths , at Bath , are known to contain more or Jess sulphur ; though not in any particular form which that very ingenious chemist could discover in his analysis . The commencement of the Horatian epistle to Numonius Vala ( as . far as it is intellig ible through a period -j- of a mile , and a parenthesis within a medical information The poet haying
parenthesis ) contains much . . tried the hot bath at Baise-to no purpose , was now using the cold bath for the recovery of his health ( by the advice of . Antomus Musa ) , amid frost and snow ; from whence \ ve . may perceive , that the present salutary practice of winter bathing is as old as the Augustan age ; Antonius Musa , physician extraordinary , to the-emperor , was at this h at the court
time ( viz . when the epistle was written ) in hig vogue of Rome , having just before performed a cure upon Augustus him' self , by the iudicious use of the cold bath . But how transient the glory , and short-lived the patronage , bestowed on the best practitioners of the healing art ! for , cold bathing being the fashion , and , like all other new-discovered remedies , expected to cure every complaint , it was prescribed for all disorders ; but the same prescription that had in so extraordinary a manner relieved Augustus , having- unluckily killed Marcellus , the science of p hysic , and all its professors ,
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Mr. Tasker's Letters
nerves originated from the brain ; and I verily believe that-he did possess this information , though he has not displayed it in any of his poems . He uses " nervusf for a bow-string , nerve , or tendon , pror miscuously ; and once , in the th Mneid , by the phrase , numerosquz iniendere nervis , he clearly means the strings of a musical instrument ; and , indeed , all the Roman writers use the word in the same ambi-Greek words and ' VEI ^ I were both
guous sense . For as the two vsugov of them expressed bv the single word " nervus , " that appellation was used in more different senses than almost any other in the Latin language . But I think . that Horace had more insight into the nervous system " and was a much better physician than Virgil . What think ; you of the following ?
Bictaque c ' es ' santem nervis elidere morbum Sulpbura . - . ' ¦ « Sulp hureous waters said to disperse the malady lingering on the nerves ! " And can any language better express what is now called in the fashionable " phrase , a slow nervous disorder ? -That sulphureous * waters are friendly to the nerves , was an antient doctrine 5 and this is in some measure confirmed by the action of the bath watersso very salutary to the nervous influence . For , whatever
, the wit or ridicule of Dr . Lucas may have suggested to the contrary , the waters of all the different hot baths , at Bath , are known to contain more or Jess sulphur ; though not in any particular form which that very ingenious chemist could discover in his analysis . The commencement of the Horatian epistle to Numonius Vala ( as . far as it is intellig ible through a period -j- of a mile , and a parenthesis within a medical information The poet haying
parenthesis ) contains much . . tried the hot bath at Baise-to no purpose , was now using the cold bath for the recovery of his health ( by the advice of . Antomus Musa ) , amid frost and snow ; from whence \ ve . may perceive , that the present salutary practice of winter bathing is as old as the Augustan age ; Antonius Musa , physician extraordinary , to the-emperor , was at this h at the court
time ( viz . when the epistle was written ) in hig vogue of Rome , having just before performed a cure upon Augustus him' self , by the iudicious use of the cold bath . But how transient the glory , and short-lived the patronage , bestowed on the best practitioners of the healing art ! for , cold bathing being the fashion , and , like all other new-discovered remedies , expected to cure every complaint , it was prescribed for all disorders ; but the same prescription that had in so extraordinary a manner relieved Augustus , having- unluckily killed Marcellus , the science of p hysic , and all its professors ,