Mental hygiene, or, An examination of the intellect and passions : designed to illustrate their influence on health and the duration of life / by William Sweetser.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Sweetser, William, 1797-1875, author.

Contributor:

• Library Company of Philadelphia, owner.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Emotions.
• Intelligence.
• Mental health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume (xii, 270 pages)).

Place of Publication:

New York : J. &. H.G. Langley, 1843.

Summary:

One of the leading causes of disease was long thought to be uncontrolled passions such as anger, lust or fear. Mind and body, sickness and health, were intricately related. This treatise on managing the passions is in effect a pioneering work in preventative psychiatry.

Notes:

• Collection reference: 104575.D
• Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Library Company of Philadelphia's catalogue, and 'An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform', compiled by Christopher Hoolihan.
• William Sweetser was an 1818 Harvard medical graduate. Sweetser divides his text into two unequal parts. The first and considerably shorter part considers "the intellectual operations in respect to their influence on the general functions of the body." He notes that "the effects which they induce in the animal economy are less strongly marked, and less hazardous to its welfare than those belonging to the passions", which comprise the second part.
• Description based on online resource (last viewed March 21, 2025).