. Thackerayana;. . The ancients no more succeeded in mastering thenatural character and physical origin of disease than they wereable to recognise the constancy of the phenomena of the uni-verse. All descriptions of sickness, especially epidemics and mentalor nervous affections, were particularly reputed of supernaturalagency; the first on account of their unexpected approaches, andtheir contagious and deadly effects ; the second on the grounds oftheir mysterious origin, and the profound affections they bringeither to the mind, the muscular system, or the sensations. When an epidemic broke out
. Thackerayana;. . The ancients no more succeeded in mastering thenatural character and physical origin of disease than they wereable to recognise the constancy of the phenomena of the uni-verse. All descriptions of sickness, especially epidemics and mentalor nervous affections, were particularly reputed of supernaturalagency; the first on account of their unexpected approaches, andtheir contagious and deadly effects ; the second on the grounds oftheir mysterious origin, and the profound affections they bringeither to the mind, the muscular system, or the sensations. When an epidemic broke out they immediately concludedthat a divinity was abroad, sent forth to execute vengeance or to r 2 !I2 THACKER A YANA. inflict just corrections. They then employed their faculties insearching for a motive that might have provoked his anger, and.
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