The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware advertiser., 1825-11-17
LOW SnIRTrS.

There is nothing more mysterious in hui /
man nature, than the cpnnexion between
matter aud mind. We are we'll aware that
there is nothing If a novel character in this
expression; but still the operations OF mind
upon the body, under the influence ot dit
ferent feelings, excited by certain associa-
tions, depending upon our relation to socl-
ety, the pursuits of business, domestic en-
ployments, or individual friendships, must
not be neglected by a physician, although he
NAV never be able to prescribe a remedy
Such, indeed, is the constitution of man, and
such. too is his misfortune, that, in possess
ing the highest intellectual attributes he is
liable to become the subject of care, anxiety
and even of despair, and health is meted out
70 him in proportion to the developcment of
sensorial power, and the trials which these
faculties have to encounter, by the greater
perfection to which they may have been car
ried by discipline and education.
1t is only among the rudest members OF
common society, that impressions arc ever
so vivid AS to produce death from excess
i've oy. The father VIII died by immod-
crate laughter, when his three sons won the
prize 1T the Olympic games, and thc.door-
keeper of Congress, who expired ON hear
ing the glorious news of peace, were men
of inferior powers; but, on the other hand,
men who have given the mot convincing
testimony of superior attainments; men,
whose genius had given them niche in
the temple of fame--who have culled the
flowers of literature, and strewed them with
4 liberal hantl--men 81 noble souls and ex-
alted characters, whose hearts were rs feel
ipg as they were good, have often become
| a urcy to all those Keen annoyances OF de-
pressed spirits, which gnaw away the vItals
and make that life-whch ought to nave
been happy one--a cold and cheeriess
| waste.
A m ,iority of malades for which the ply
sician is consulted, i'll persons ot delicate
tenneraments have Il direct origin in some
,abor of the mind, which extends its nt1u-
snce TO the animal system, and thus the dis
eliminating pAthoogists may direct by care
fully weighing a train of circumstances,
which are all reterable to the social state,
the origin Of nervous debility, local pains,
fatal affections of the lungs, and even Or
r,n;c diseases of the heart. Women arc
Nv no means exempted from these peculiar
snfierings indeed, the most refined and
lovely females are the most frequent subjects
of these fatal diseases, which are depending
IN some hidden secret in the mind, and ev-
srv rolling ear carries with its seasons ma
nv hundreds of interesting females, the pale
victims of a broken heart. There is no
! sight to professional man more melancho-
w. than to witness the daily progress OF
these fatal symptoms upon the care worn
checks of an innocent, but disconsolatey youth,
whose only i'll is truly in the mind and
there is nothing better calculated to indncs
him to mourn over the imperfection of the
healing art, which cannot cure a wounded
spirit. -. .,a.,,,,,, !,
encouraged, and when the sun shines mid
ly through the little day of life and all the the
springs Of youthful vigor are kept in balance
by an elastic spirit bounding to the clouds,
; insures both length of days and happiness
but when the world has lost its charms
and the flowers no longer yield rich per
fume, when friends are dropping to tht
gave, and the azure sky is darker each re-
turning day; the slender tenement which
! held so rich gem--the rational, immorta
soul-withers in the blast of sorrow, ant
all that could have charmed the eye IN sym
metry and form dissoves in death forever
Where there is strength, it is in most in