Benjamin Rush's Lectures on the MindAmerican Philosophical Society, 1981 - 735 pagina's This 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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Pagina 55
... 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 ...
Pagina 83
... 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 ...
Pagina 84
... 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 ...
Pagina 85
... 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 ...
Pagina 100
... 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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action American animal appears association become believe blood body brain called cause certain common connected continued course death derived discovered disease dreams Edinburgh effects excitement exercise existence external eyes fact faculties feel force further give given habit hearing heat hence human ideas imagination impressions influence John kind knowledge lectures less light lived London manner matter means medicine memory mentioned mind moral motion muscles nature necessary nerves never night objects observation operations opinion organs original pain passions perception perfect persons Philadelphia philosopher physician pleasure possess present principle probably produce reason remarkable Rush Rush's says sensation sense sensibility sleep smell sometimes soul sound speak spirit stimulus supposed taste theory things thought tongue touch true understanding University whole
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Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
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