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“ As to what respects the cure of this Disease, Stupidity, whether innate or acquir'd though it be not usuall be cured, yet it is want to be amended. ”

- Thomas Willis

“ Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding. ”

- Thomas Willis

“ Diabetes is caused by melancholy. ”

- Thomas Willis

“ Diabetes is caused by melancholy. ”

- Thomas Willis

“ I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power. ”

- Thomas Willis

“ Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit. ”

- Thomas Willis

“ Diabetes is caused by melancholy. ”

- Thomas Willis

“ Persons that are stupid we may imagine, sometimes an excess of some manifest quality in the Brain… for which reason Children and aged Persons are often wont to be affected with a Dulness of the Senses: sometimes a texture too gross and earthy, so that the Spirits cannot easily irradiate it, or make Tracts for themselves. ”

- Thomas Willis

“ As to what respects the cure of this Disease, Stupidity, whether innate or acquir'd though it be not usuall be cured, yet it is want to be amended. ”

- Thomas Willis

“ Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit. ”

- Thomas Willis

“ Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding. ”

- Thomas Willis

“ Melancholy… is a complicated Distemper of the Brain and Heart: For as Melancholick people talk idly, it proceeds from the vice or fault of the Brain, and the inordination of the Animal Spirits dwelling in it; but as they become very sad and fearful, this is deservedly attributed to the Passion of the Heart. ”

- Thomas Willis

“ Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding. ”

- Thomas Willis

“ Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding. ”

- Thomas Willis

“ Diabetes is caused by melancholy. ”

- Thomas Willis

“ Persons that are stupid we may imagine, sometimes an excess of some manifest quality in the Brain… for which reason Children and aged Persons are often wont to be affected with a Dulness of the Senses: sometimes a texture too gross and earthy, so that the Spirits cannot easily irradiate it, or make Tracts for themselves. ”

- Thomas Willis

“ I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power. ”

- Thomas Willis

“ Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding. ”

- Thomas Willis

“ Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit. ”

- Thomas Willis

“ As to what respects the cure of this Disease, Stupidity, whether innate or acquir'd though it be not usuall be cured, yet it is want to be amended. ”

- Thomas Willis

“ Persons that are stupid we may imagine, sometimes an excess of some manifest quality in the Brain… for which reason Children and aged Persons are often wont to be affected with a Dulness of the Senses: sometimes a texture too gross and earthy, so that the Spirits cannot easily irradiate it, or make Tracts for themselves. ”

- Thomas Willis

“ Melancholy… is a complicated Distemper of the Brain and Heart: For as Melancholick people talk idly, it proceeds from the vice or fault of the Brain, and the inordination of the Animal Spirits dwelling in it; but as they become very sad and fearful, this is deservedly attributed to the Passion of the Heart. ”

- Thomas Willis

“ As to what respects the cure of this Disease, Stupidity, whether innate or acquir'd though it be not usuall be cured, yet it is want to be amended. ”

- Thomas Willis

“ Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding. ”

- Thomas Willis

“ Melancholy… is a complicated Distemper of the Brain and Heart: For as Melancholick people talk idly, it proceeds from the vice or fault of the Brain, and the inordination of the Animal Spirits dwelling in it; but as they become very sad and fearful, this is deservedly attributed to the Passion of the Heart. ”

- Thomas Willis

“ I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power. ”

- Thomas Willis

“ Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit. ”

- Thomas Willis

“ As to what respects the cure of this Disease, Stupidity, whether innate or acquir'd though it be not usuall be cured, yet it is want to be amended. ”

- Thomas Willis

“ Diabetes is caused by melancholy. ”

- Thomas Willis

“ Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit. ”

- Thomas Willis
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