An inaptitude to muscular action, or some pain in exerting it; an irksomeness, or dislike to attend to business and the common affairs of life; a selfish desire of engrossing the sympathy and attention of others to the narration of their own sufferings... The Harrogate Medical Guide - Página 21por Alfred Smith (M.R.C.S.) - 1847Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1804 - 572 páginas
...seamen, accustomed by education and habit to adventure, and familiar with danger in every shape : 1 An inaptitude to muscular action, or some pain in...$ an irksomeness or dislike to attend to business or the common affairs of life ; a selfish desire of engrossing the sympathy and attention of others... | |
| George Robinson - 1859 - 294 páginas
...by the terms nervous, spasmodic, bilious, indigestion, stomach complaints, low spirits, vapours, &c. An inaptitude to muscular action, or some pain in...engrossing the sympathy and attention of others to the narration of their own sufferings, with fickleness and unsteadiness of temper, even to irascibility,... | |
| Timothy Morton - 2000 - 246 páginas
...for want of a better, I shall insert it here. "Nervous feelings, nervous affections, or weak nerves, though scarcely to be resolved into technical language,...engrossing the sympathy and attention of others to the narration of their own sufferings; with fickleness and insteadiness of temper, even to irascibility;... | |
| Mary Wilson Carpenter - 2003 - 231 páginas
...Thomas Trotter's^L View oftheNervous Temperament (1807), in which hysteria is said to be marked by "a selfish desire of engrossing the sympathy and attention of others to the narration of their own sufferings; with fickleness and insteadiness [sic] of temper, even to irascibility;... | |
| Jason Daniel Tougaw - 2006 - 256 páginas
...(16—17). According to Trotter, the hypochondriac's compulsion to speak about his symptoms is created by "a selfish desire of engrossing the sympathy and attention of others to the narration of their own sufferings" (xvi). The hypochondriac's "act of speech" is always an act of flawed... | |
| Fiona J. Stafford - 2007 - 331 páginas
...Introduction to a book called A View of the Nervous Temperament published by Dr. Thomas Trotter in 1807: An inaptitude to muscular action, or some pain in...engrossing the sympathy and attention of others to the narration of their own sufferings; with fickleness and unsteadiness of o ' temper, even to irascibility:... | |
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