Benjamin Rush's Lectures on the MindAmerican Philosophical Society, 1981 - 735 էջ 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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... external and internal senses , the main discussion would occur . Boerhaave and most of his intellectual descendents acknowledged the difficulties of reconciling the metaphysical mind to empirical physiology . Rush's master Cullen , for ...
... external and internal senses , the main discussion would occur . Boerhaave and most of his intellectual descendents acknowledged the difficulties of reconciling the metaphysical mind to empirical physiology . Rush's master Cullen , for ...
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... external and internal senses , was not meant to have any metaphysical implications in itself , and a physiologist speaking of mind only in terms of internal senses ( by which he meant memory , judgment , volition , etc. ) did not ...
... external and internal senses , was not meant to have any metaphysical implications in itself , and a physiologist speaking of mind only in terms of internal senses ( by which he meant memory , judgment , volition , etc. ) did not ...
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... external senses of sight , hearing , etc. senses , Rush saw nothing wrong with the old term internal for they are in every respect like the external senses in their origin and offices . They are all as torpid at birth as the eyes and ...
... external senses of sight , hearing , etc. senses , Rush saw nothing wrong with the old term internal for they are in every respect like the external senses in their origin and offices . They are all as torpid at birth as the eyes and ...
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... external senses to the external environment . Butler believed the body to be an aggregate of different senses , organs , and functions ; and intellectual nature to be compounded of a number of instincts , judgments , passions , emotions ...
... external senses to the external environment . Butler believed the body to be an aggregate of different senses , organs , and functions ; and intellectual nature to be compounded of a number of instincts , judgments , passions , emotions ...
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... external objects or forces upon the nerves . The resulting vibrations , translated to the mind via the brain and kept in 1David Hartley , Observations on Man , 4th ed . ( London , 1801 ) , vol . II , pp . iii - iv . Rush owned and used ...
... external objects or forces upon the nerves . The resulting vibrations , translated to the mind via the brain and kept in 1David Hartley , Observations on Man , 4th ed . ( London , 1801 ) , vol . II , pp . iii - iv . Rush owned and used ...
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Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...