Secretion the source of pleasurable sensations : a thesis, submitted to the examination of the professors of the College of Physicians and Surgeons and publicly defended before them, in the city of New-York, March 1923 / by John L. Suckley.

  • Suckley, John L.
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1823
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Credit: Secretion the source of pleasurable sensations : a thesis, submitted to the examination of the professors of the College of Physicians and Surgeons and publicly defended before them, in the city of New-York, March 1923 / by John L. Suckley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE SOURCE OF PLEASURABLE SENSATIONS. Pleasure and pain are relative terms. Circumstances, which in one instance afford pleasure, would in another produce pain. Thus the man who has ever been accustom- ed to have his wants supplied, and with a nod to command any new enjoyment or gratification, would feel the severest torture in being obliged to venture out on a stormy day—a bad road, poor horses, and indifferent entertainment on his way, would not fail to render a journey, in his eyes, insupportably tedious ; while the beggar enjoys, not only a degree of satisfaction, but even of pleasure, in being well clad in rags. Let the tempest howl as it will, a ride on an ox-cart would