Body and Mind: An Inquiry Into Their Connection and Mutual Influence, Specially in Reference to Mental DisordersD. Appleton, 1871 - 155 Seiten |
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... convolutions to be fewer in number , individu- ally less complex , broader and smoother , than in the apes : " In this respect , " he says , " the idiots ' brains are even more simple than that of the gibbon , and approach that of the ...
... convolutions to be fewer in number , individu- ally less complex , broader and smoother , than in the apes : " In this respect , " he says , " the idiots ' brains are even more simple than that of the gibbon , and approach that of the ...
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... convolutions of which have increased in size , number , and complexity , will hardly now be disputed . Whether the frag- ments of ancient human crania which have been discovered in Europe do or do not testify to the existence of a ...
... convolutions of which have increased in size , number , and complexity , will hardly now be disputed . Whether the frag- ments of ancient human crania which have been discovered in Europe do or do not testify to the existence of a ...
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... convolutions , although all present , were smaller and much less complicated than in the European ; the external connecting convolutions were still more remark- ably defective ; the secondary sulci and convolutions were everywhere ...
... convolutions , although all present , were smaller and much less complicated than in the European ; the external connecting convolutions were still more remark- ably defective ; the secondary sulci and convolutions were everywhere ...
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... convolutions in the brains of five very eminent men which he examined . * Thus , then , while we take it to be well established that the convolutions of the human brain have undergone a considerable development through the ages , we may ...
... convolutions in the brains of five very eminent men which he examined . * Thus , then , while we take it to be well established that the convolutions of the human brain have undergone a considerable development through the ages , we may ...
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... convolutions ; he is as incapable therefore of the higher mental displays of abstract reasoning and moral feeling as an idiot is , and for a like reason . Indeed , were we to imagine a person born in this country , at this time , with a ...
... convolutions ; he is as incapable therefore of the higher mental displays of abstract reasoning and moral feeling as an idiot is , and for a like reason . Indeed , were we to imagine a person born in this country , at this time , with a ...
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activity animal Archbishop of York Aristotle asylum atheism become bodily body brain cause cell cerebral hemispheres character chemical affinity chemical compound chemical force colloidal complex consciousness convolutions convulsions definite degeneracy delusions disease disorder display effects elements energy epilepsy epileptic evolution exalted excited exhibit existence external fact feeling Goethe heat Herbert Spencer higher highest human ideas idiocy idiot individual inorganic insane neurosis instinct intelligence kind knowledge laws lecture less living matter mania manifest melancholia ment mental derangement mental functions mind molecular molecules moral morbid motor motor centres movements muscles muscular Nature nerve nerve-cell nerve-centres nervous neuralgia neurine observation occur organic matter patient phenomena PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY philosophy phthisis physical physiological produced reflex action relations scientific sensation senses sensibility sensory sometimes spinal cord structure supreme centres symptoms takes place things thought tion tissue true ture uncon vague vital action vital force volition
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 51 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Seite 95 - On earth there is nothing great but man, In man there is nothing great but mind.
Seite 112 - It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Seite 125 - But it is manifest that Plato, in his opinion of ideas, as one that had a wit of elevation situate as upon a cliff, did descry, " That forms were the true object of " knowledge;" but lost the real fruit of his opinion, by considering of forms as absolutely abstracted from matter, and not confined and determined by matter ; and so turning his opinion upon theology, wherewith all his natural philosophy is infected.
Seite 120 - We carry with us the wonders we seek without us: there is all Africa and her prodigies in us; we are that bold and adventurous piece of Nature, which he that studies wisely learns in a compendium what others labour at in a divided piece and endless volume.
Seite 78 - The monthly activity of the ovaries, which marks the advent of puberty in women, has a notable effect upon the mind and body; wherefore it may become an important cause of mental and physical derangement.
Seite 94 - As physicians, we cannot afford to lose sight of the physical aspects of mental states, if we would truly comprehend the nature of mental disease, and learn to treat it with success. The metaphysician may, for the...
Seite 134 - The colloidal is, in fact, a dynamical state of matter, the crystalloidal being the statical condition. The colloid possesses Energia. It may be looked upon as the probable primary source of the force appearing in the phenomena of vitality.