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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... nerve - centres , and the more necessary it becomes to analyze these functions , to separate the more simple and elementary , and to discover in the concrete as much as possible of the meaning of the abstraction . Is the brain the ...
... nerve - centres , and the more necessary it becomes to analyze these functions , to separate the more simple and elementary , and to discover in the concrete as much as possible of the meaning of the abstraction . Is the brain the ...
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... centres to the interpretation of the functions of lower nerve - centres , and so of misinterpreting them . As- suredly we have sad experience enough to warn us against involving the latter in the metaphysical haze which still hangs over ...
... centres to the interpretation of the functions of lower nerve - centres , and so of misinterpreting them . As- suredly we have sad experience enough to warn us against involving the latter in the metaphysical haze which still hangs over ...
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... nerve - centres . centres . Let us now go a step further . The automatic acts , whether primary or secondary , in the frog or in the man , which are excited by the suitable external stimulus , may also be excited by an act of will , by ...
... nerve - centres . centres . Let us now go a step further . The automatic acts , whether primary or secondary , in the frog or in the man , which are excited by the suitable external stimulus , may also be excited by an act of will , by ...
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... nerve - centres , we ob- serve how much of them it will serve to interpret . The re- sult is , that we find a great part of the habitual functions of the higher centres to be similarly automatic , and to admit of a similar physiological ...
... nerve - centres , we ob- serve how much of them it will serve to interpret . The re- sult is , that we find a great part of the habitual functions of the higher centres to be similarly automatic , and to admit of a similar physiological ...
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... nerve - centres than sensory ganglia , no centres of intelligence and will , and which exe- cute all their varied and active movements , all their wonder- ful displays of instinct , through sensory and associated motor nuclei . They ...
... nerve - centres than sensory ganglia , no centres of intelligence and will , and which exe- cute all their varied and active movements , all their wonder- ful displays of instinct , through sensory and associated motor nuclei . They ...
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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.