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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... sensibility , the more subtle reverberations leading to sensation , perception , feeling , thought , and voluntary motions ( associated with the nerves ) . Rush's version of this theory closely resembles that of the Scottish physician ...
... sensibility , the more subtle reverberations leading to sensation , perception , feeling , thought , and voluntary motions ( associated with the nerves ) . Rush's version of this theory closely resembles that of the Scottish physician ...
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... sensibility , or irritability , or both of them . By sensibility I mean a power of having sensation excited from the action of impressions . By By irritability I mean that property in the human body , which is capable of knowing motion ...
... sensibility , or irritability , or both of them . By sensibility I mean a power of having sensation excited from the action of impressions . By By irritability I mean that property in the human body , which is capable of knowing motion ...
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... sensibility of the body is not confined to its external surface , nor is motion exerted only by external impression . There are certain impressions communicated by causes which act upon the internal parts of the body , and which are ...
... sensibility of the body is not confined to its external surface , nor is motion exerted only by external impression . There are certain impressions communicated by causes which act upon the internal parts of the body , and which are ...
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... sensibility and contractility , which are thus extended in different degrees , over every external and internal part of the body . These stimuli are as necessary to its existence and preservation , as air is to flame . It is , to use ...
... sensibility and contractility , which are thus extended in different degrees , over every external and internal part of the body . These stimuli are as necessary to its existence and preservation , as air is to flame . It is , to use ...
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... sensibility of this organ is wonderfully connected with that of the whole system . Hence we find the body invigorated by aliment , as soon as it comes in contact with the tongue ; second , by mastication : this moves a number of muscles ...
... sensibility of this organ is wonderfully connected with that of the whole system . Hence we find the body invigorated by aliment , as soon as it comes in contact with the tongue ; second , by mastication : this moves a number of muscles ...
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¹see action acute aliment American animal appears association believe Benjamin Rush blood vessels Boerhaave brain brutes called cause Cullen David Hartley death degree derived discovered disease divine dreams Edinburgh effects encrease excitement exercise existence external eyes faculty psychology fever glottis habit Haller Hartley hearing heat hence Herman Boerhaave human body human mind ideas imagination impressions influence Institutes of Medicine intellectual John Joseph Priestley knowledge lectures light London manner matter medicine memory mentioned moral faculty motion muscles nature nerves Non RC objects observation operations organs pain passions peculiar perception persons Philadelphia philosopher phrenology physician physiology pleasure possess principle produce psychology reason remarkable retina Robert Whytt Rush's says sensation sense of Deity sense of touch sensibility sleep smell soul sound stimulus stomach supposed taste theory Thirdly Thomas Reid thought tongue tympanum understanding vibrations waking words yellow fever
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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.
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