Benjamin Rush's Lectures on the MindAmerican Philosophical Society, 1981 - 735 Seiten 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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... common : they presupposed a new role for man in the universe . advised the eighteenth - century philosopher to Know then thyself , presume not God to scan , The proper study of mankind is man . 1 Pope For many centuries previous , the ...
... common : they presupposed a new role for man in the universe . advised the eighteenth - century philosopher to Know then thyself , presume not God to scan , The proper study of mankind is man . 1 Pope For many centuries previous , the ...
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... common sense . * Of attention , reflection , contemplation , and wit . * Of consciousness . * Of the manner in which the faculties of the mind are evolved . * Of the faculties and operations of the human mind which distinguish them from ...
... common sense . * Of attention , reflection , contemplation , and wit . * Of consciousness . * Of the manner in which the faculties of the mind are evolved . * Of the faculties and operations of the human mind which distinguish them from ...
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... common to all life , plant as well as animal -- these are the most basic motions of life . The second corresponds to Rush's sensation , the power to respond to stimuli . The last , thought , is possessed in its most perfect corporeal ...
... common to all life , plant as well as animal -- these are the most basic motions of life . The second corresponds to Rush's sensation , the power to respond to stimuli . The last , thought , is possessed in its most perfect corporeal ...
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... common division of it into active and passive , or into substances that possess a power to move themselves , and into such as require a power to move them . I believe that animals , like water , earth and air , nay further , that the ...
... common division of it into active and passive , or into substances that possess a power to move themselves , and into such as require a power to move them . I believe that animals , like water , earth and air , nay further , that the ...
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... common explanation of this passage of Scripture is , that God , in this act , infused a soul into the torpid , or lifeless body of Adam , and that his soul became its principle of life , or in other words , that he thus changed a dead ...
... common explanation of this passage of Scripture is , that God , in this act , infused a soul into the torpid , or lifeless body of Adam , and that his soul became its principle of life , or in other words , that he thus changed a dead ...
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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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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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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