Benjamin Rush's Lectures on the MindThis volume contains the lectures of Dr. Benjamin Rush on physiology, which deal with the mind. Regarded as "the father of American psychiatry," for over 30 years Dr. Rush treated insane patients at the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. He published the first American book on psychiatry, "Medical Inquiries and Observations Upon the Disease of the Mind," in 1812. Contents of this volume: General Introduction; The Syllabus; The Introductory Lecture; Introduction to the Lectures on Animal Life; Benjamin Rush Lectures on the Mind; Introduction to the Mind; Introduction to Sleep and Dreams; and Epilogue. |
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... less formally Finley emphasized Christian morality , strictness without corporal punishment , and an appreciation of nature . Rush left this school in the spring of 1759 in order to enter , as an upperclassman , the College of New ...
... less formally Finley emphasized Christian morality , strictness without corporal punishment , and an appreciation of nature . Rush left this school in the spring of 1759 in order to enter , as an upperclassman , the College of New ...
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... less adequate , but filled with more detail of the earlier period , is Joseph Carson , A History of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania ( Philadelphia , 1869 ) . 2Dr . Benjamin S. Barton , a well - known naturalist ...
... less adequate , but filled with more detail of the earlier period , is Joseph Carson , A History of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania ( Philadelphia , 1869 ) . 2Dr . Benjamin S. Barton , a well - known naturalist ...
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... less can it be concerned with immaterial abstractions such as life , soul , spirit , and mind . In any case physiology has no language of its own for handling these concepts , apart from their connection with some sort of real or ...
... less can it be concerned with immaterial abstractions such as life , soul , spirit , and mind . In any case physiology has no language of its own for handling these concepts , apart from their connection with some sort of real or ...
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... less intelligible and agreeable . Besides , you will receive anatomical instruction from another chair , under a thousand advantages above what I am able to give you . 2 1 [ + The order I have chosen for these lectures I conceive to be ...
... less intelligible and agreeable . Besides , you will receive anatomical instruction from another chair , under a thousand advantages above what I am able to give you . 2 1 [ + The order I have chosen for these lectures I conceive to be ...
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... less from the abstrac- tion of heat , but it is probably because the absence of it is supplied by an increase in the action of other stimuli . 1The lines which Rush intended to quote have gone astray , but may well have been these ...
... less from the abstrac- tion of heat , but it is probably because the absence of it is supplied by an increase in the action of other stimuli . 1The lines which Rush intended to quote have gone astray , but may well have been these ...
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Page 189 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled : thou takest away- their breath, they die, and return to their dust. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created : and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Page 689 - I never addressed myself in the language of decency and friendship to a woman, whether civilized or savage, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise.
Page 505 - I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity and are in a perpetual flux and movement.
Page 68 - Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh...
Page 185 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years...
Page 121 - David was old and stricken in years ; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat. 2 Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for uay lord the king a young virgin : and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.
Page 690 - The winds roared, and the rain fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk — no wife to grind his corn.
Page 689 - Tartar, if hungry, dry, cold, wet, or sick, woman has ever been friendly to me, and uniformly so ; and to add to this virtue, so worthy of the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that if I was dry I drank the sweet draught, and if hungry ate the coarse morsel, with a double relish.
Page 434 - THESE vibrations are motions backwards and forwards of the small particles; of the same kind with the oscillations of pendulums, and the tremblings of the particles of sounding bodies. They must be conceived to be exceedingly short and small, so as not to have the least efficacy to disturb or move the whole bodies of the nerves or brain.
Page 71 - Tunes her nocturnal note : thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...