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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... : Citizen ( Philadelphia , 1934 ) , still the scholarly study . Though a sound work , as the others , and not easily found . Physician and only complete it is not as readable Benjamin Rush is also regarded as " the father of - - 1 - III.
... : Citizen ( Philadelphia , 1934 ) , still the scholarly study . Though a sound work , as the others , and not easily found . Physician and only complete it is not as readable Benjamin Rush is also regarded as " the father of - - 1 - III.
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... sound , odors , The heat , pure air , and the reflected stimulus of exercise . internal stimuli are food , drinks , chyle , the blood , a certain tension of the glands which contain secreted liquors , [ and ] the reflected exercises of ...
... sound , odors , The heat , pure air , and the reflected stimulus of exercise . internal stimuli are food , drinks , chyle , the blood , a certain tension of the glands which contain secreted liquors , [ and ] the reflected exercises of ...
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... Sound has an extensive influence upon human life . Conversation is a fruitful source of sound , but this is less constant than many others . The current of winds , the passage of insects through the air , and even the growth of ...
... Sound has an extensive influence upon human life . Conversation is a fruitful source of sound , but this is less constant than many others . The current of winds , the passage of insects through the air , and even the growth of ...
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... sounds of a certain kind in encreasing life , or producing a high degree of excitement , will not be denied . Fear produces debility , which is a tendency to death ; now sound , we know , obviates this debility , - 95 -
... sounds of a certain kind in encreasing life , or producing a high degree of excitement , will not be denied . Fear produces debility , which is a tendency to death ; now sound , we know , obviates this debility , - 95 -
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... sound , we know , obviates this debility , and thus disposes to life . The school boy and the clown whistle or sing as they pass by a country church yard , and the soldier feels his departing life recalled in the onset of a battle , by ...
... sound , we know , obviates this debility , and thus disposes to life . The school boy and the clown whistle or sing as they pass by a country church yard , and the soldier feels his departing life recalled in the onset of a battle , by ...
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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...