A touch of the vapours – how the mind works February 8, 2009
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“Imagination is seated in the forepart of the brain; it is hot and dry in quality, quick, active, always working; it receives vapours from the heart, and coins them into thoughts: it never sleeps, but always is working, both when the man is sleeping and waking; only when judgement is awake it regulates the Imagination, which runs at random when Judgement is asleep, and forms any thought according to the nature of the vapour sent up to it.”
Nicholas Culpeper ‘The English Physician’ (1652)
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