A New View of Insanity: The Duality of the Mind Proved by the Structure, Functions, and Diseases of the Brain, and by the Phenomena of Mental Derangement, and Shewn to be Essential to Moral Responsibility. With an Appendix ... |
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... ideas are not the less original , for no suggestion reached me till more than twenty years after I had completely arranged the whole in my own mind . The previous hints may diminish the merit , but not the value of my demon- stration ...
... ideas are not the less original , for no suggestion reached me till more than twenty years after I had completely arranged the whole in my own mind . The previous hints may diminish the merit , but not the value of my demon- stration ...
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... , like the organs by which it is exercised . Even Dr. Holland does not follow up his own ideas to their legitimate consequences , nor arrive at the logical result to which they seem inevitably to lead , as I expect to 4 INTRODUCTION .
... , like the organs by which it is exercised . Even Dr. Holland does not follow up his own ideas to their legitimate consequences , nor arrive at the logical result to which they seem inevitably to lead , as I expect to 4 INTRODUCTION .
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... idea has presented itself to my mind , and I have dwelt on it for more than a quarter of a century , without being able to find a single valid , or even plausible objection . It explains innumerable difficulties and contradictions ; it ...
... idea has presented itself to my mind , and I have dwelt on it for more than a quarter of a century , without being able to find a single valid , or even plausible objection . It explains innumerable difficulties and contradictions ; it ...
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... idea of their position ; in point of fact , however , they do not extend down to the edge of the band , but only to a certain depth in the white mass of fibres which forms the body and substance of the brain . If we could suppose the ...
... idea of their position ; in point of fact , however , they do not extend down to the edge of the band , but only to a certain depth in the white mass of fibres which forms the body and substance of the brain . If we could suppose the ...
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... idea of it . If , however , the reader be not acquainted with its anatomy , he may acquiesce in my facts and my reasonings , but cannot in strictness be said to judge of them . According to Flourens , whose opinions are founded partly ...
... idea of it . If , however , the reader be not acquainted with its anatomy , he may acquiesce in my facts and my reasonings , but cannot in strictness be said to judge of them . According to Flourens , whose opinions are founded partly ...
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3d Edition action Anatomy animal ANTHONY TODD THOMSON attention believe body brain called cause cerebellum cerebral cerebrum cloth COMPARATIVE ANATOMY complete comprehend conceive conscious conviction corpus callosum cultivated degree delusion destroyed disease disorder disturbance doctrine effect endeavoured entirely established example excite exercise existence explain eyes fact faculties feeling fibres functions gentleman give gradually habits human ideas impulse indulgence inferences influence injury insanity intellect JOHN LINDLEY JOSEPH SWAN manifest Materia Medica medulla oblongata ment mind mode moral morbid nature nerves nervous object observed opinion organ passed patient perception perfect perfectly perhaps persons phenomena phrenologists physical physician Plates portion position possession practice present produce propensities reason remarkable result seems sensation sense shew sleep sometimes soul sound structure suppose Surgeon theory thing tion trains of thought TREATISE treatment University of Göttingen volition whole Woodcuts writer
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Page 200 - And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.
Page 71 - I pictured to my mind the figures of such persons, I never once could succeed in my desire of seeing them externally ; though I had some short time before seen them as phantoms, and they had perhaps afterwards unexpectedly presented themselves to me in the same manner.
Page 256 - ... had been ten days confined with her first child, when suddenly, having her eyes fixed upon it, she was seized with the desire of strangling it. This idea made her shudder ; she carried the infant to its cradle, and went out in order to get rid of so horrid a thought. The cries of the little being who required nourishment, recalled her to the house; she experienced still more strongly the impulse to destroy it. She hastened away again, haunted by the dread of committing a crime so horrible; she...
Page 73 - I had no recollection of having previously seen. For about twenty-four hours I had constantly before me a human figure, the features and dress of which were as distinctly visible as that of any real existence, and of which, after an interval of many years. I still retain the most lively impression ; yet neither at the time nor since have I been able to discover any person whom I had previously seen who resembled it.
Page 86 - Miserere of Mozart, the music ceased, and there was an absolute silence. The coffin, which was placed on a kind of altar covered with black cloth (united to the black cloth which covered the pavement), sank down so slowly through the floor, that it was only in measuring its progress by some brilliant object beyond it that any motion could be perceived. I had fallen into a sort of torpid reverie, when I was recalled to consciousness by a paroxysm of violent grief on the part of the bereaved husband,...