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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... necessary for such a broad project and in ours many have been both helpful and essential . The surveying of Rush's manuscripts took me from Boston to Durham , North Carolina , with stops in between at New York and Washington . It was ...
... necessary for such a broad project and in ours many have been both helpful and essential . The surveying of Rush's manuscripts took me from Boston to Durham , North Carolina , with stops in between at New York and Washington . It was ...
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... necessary to build a successful practice . In addition John Morgan , with whom he was developing a friendship , encouraged Rush to train himself in chemistry , with the expectation that he might later take the chair of chemistry at the ...
... necessary to build a successful practice . In addition John Morgan , with whom he was developing a friendship , encouraged Rush to train himself in chemistry , with the expectation that he might later take the chair of chemistry at the ...
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... necessary connections Many vitalists spoke in entirely secular terms of a living principle rather than a soul ; while most mechanists were as much concerned with religion as with natural philosophy . Hartley is in some ways the most ...
... necessary connections Many vitalists spoke in entirely secular terms of a living principle rather than a soul ; while most mechanists were as much concerned with religion as with natural philosophy . Hartley is in some ways the most ...
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... necessary for Republicanism to ally itself to the Christian religion , " he writes , " to overturn all the corrupted political and religious institutions in the world . " 2 And this is precisely where he oversteps Hartley in a ...
... necessary for Republicanism to ally itself to the Christian religion , " he writes , " to overturn all the corrupted political and religious institutions in the world . " 2 And this is precisely where he oversteps Hartley in a ...
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... necessary , God - given motives , rather than from any principle inherent in the will itself . " If this were not true , " he adds , " there would be a defect of unity in the plans of the Creator . " Finally , " it shows the Deity as ...
... necessary , God - given motives , rather than from any principle inherent in the will itself . " If this were not true , " he adds , " there would be a defect of unity in the plans of the Creator . " Finally , " it shows the Deity as ...
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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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