The Study of Medicine, Volume 4Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1825 - Medicine |
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... preceding instances that the same surface of the brain or spinal chord furnishes to each voluntary muscle of the body its voluntary and sentient nerves , if the two are not identical " * . There is in like manner reason for believing ...
... preceding instances that the same surface of the brain or spinal chord furnishes to each voluntary muscle of the body its voluntary and sentient nerves , if the two are not identical " * . There is in like manner reason for believing ...
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... preceding , does not seem to be built on a more stable foundation . According to his view of the subject , organized differs from inorganized matter merely by the addition of certain PROPERTIES which are called vital , as sensibility ...
... preceding , does not seem to be built on a more stable foundation . According to his view of the subject , organized differs from inorganized matter merely by the addition of certain PROPERTIES which are called vital , as sensibility ...
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... preceding pages of the present work , that the nervous power is a peculiar fluid secreted in the medullary sub- stance of the brain or the nerves , he endeavours to show pathological that the cause of insanities is a specific morbid ...
... preceding pages of the present work , that the nervous power is a peculiar fluid secreted in the medullary sub- stance of the brain or the nerves , he endeavours to show pathological that the cause of insanities is a specific morbid ...
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... preceding species : Mania . Madness . Exciting causes . Puerperal mania pro- duced by but the chain of sympathy not easy to be followed up . a Ferox . B Exultans . > Despondens . Demens . Furious and violent madness . Gay and elevated ...
... preceding species : Mania . Madness . Exciting causes . Puerperal mania pro- duced by but the chain of sympathy not easy to be followed up . a Ferox . B Exultans . > Despondens . Demens . Furious and violent madness . Gay and elevated ...
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... preceding form , that they rarely sustain a long prognostics . conflict ; the exhaustion of sensorial power by repeated to the paroxysms soon leading to a total torpitude , and conse- quently a death of the sensorial organ ; though ...
... preceding form , that they rarely sustain a long prognostics . conflict ; the exhaustion of sensorial power by repeated to the paroxysms soon leading to a total torpitude , and conse- quently a death of the sensorial organ ; though ...
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Page 83 - For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being mis-led by similitude, and by affinity, to take one thing for another.
Page 85 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 170 - I am conscious, and confess Fearless, a soul that does not always think. Me oft has fancy ludicrous and wild Soothed with a waking dream of houses, towers, Trees, churches, and strange visages express'd In the red cinders, while with poring eye I gazed, myself creating what I saw.
Page 53 - Her eyes, her lips, her cheeks, her shape, her features, Seem to be drawn by LOVE'S own hand ; by LOVE Himself in love.
Page 68 - When we set before our eyes a round globe of any uniform colour, vg, gold, alabaster, or jet, it is certain that the idea thereby imprinted in our mind is of a flat circle variously shadowed, with several degrees of light and brightness coming to our eyes. But we having by use been accustomed to perceive what kind of appearance convex...
Page 233 - Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Page 138 - An only son of a weak and indulgent mother was encouraged in the gratification of every caprice and passion of which an untutored and violent temper was susceptible. The impetuosity of his disposition increased with his years. The money with which he was lavishly supplied removed every obstacle to the indulgence of his wild desires. Every instance of opposition or resistance roused him to acts of fury. He assaulted his...
Page 68 - ... with several degrees of light and brightness coming to our eyes. But we having by use been accustomed to perceive what kind of appearance convex bodies are wont to make in us, what alterations are made in the reflections of light by the difference of the sensible figures of bodies, the judgment presently, by an habitual custom, alters the appearances into their causes ; So that from that which...
Page 585 - The infusion of tobacco when injected into the intestine, and the upas antiar when applied to a wound, have the power of rendering the heart insensible to the stimulus of the blood, thus stopping the circulation ; in other words, they occasion syncope. 3.
Page 90 - he composed this book .with a view of relieving his own melancholy, but increased it to such a degree, that nothing could make him laugh but going to the bridge foot and hearing the ribaldry of the bargemen, which rarely failed to throw him into a violent fit of laughter. Before he was overcome with this horrid disorder, he in the intervals of his vapours was esteemed one of the mpst facetious companions in the university.