Benjamin Rush's Lectures on the MindAmerican Philosophical Society, 1981 - 735 pages 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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... organ is preserved only to the extent that the rudimentary state of neurophysiology made it impossible to identify most of the organs involved . At the beginning of his course , Rush had pointed out that it would contain " several ...
... organ is preserved only to the extent that the rudimentary state of neurophysiology made it impossible to identify most of the organs involved . At the beginning of his course , Rush had pointed out that it would contain " several ...
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... organs , and functions ; and intellectual nature to be compounded of a number of instincts , judgments , passions , emotions , and propensities . Man's moral nature he ascribed to the ruling power of reflection , or conscience . 2 David ...
... organs , and functions ; and intellectual nature to be compounded of a number of instincts , judgments , passions , emotions , and propensities . Man's moral nature he ascribed to the ruling power of reflection , or conscience . 2 David ...
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... organs of sense and motion . These stimuli are 1See William Cullen , Clinical Lectures Delivered in the Years 1765 and 1766 ( London , 1797 ) , p . 18 . 2 . LAL ( 1799 ) , pp . 7-8 : " In thus ascribing the discovery of the cause of ...
... organs of sense and motion . These stimuli are 1See William Cullen , Clinical Lectures Delivered in the Years 1765 and 1766 ( London , 1797 ) , p . 18 . 2 . LAL ( 1799 ) , pp . 7-8 : " In thus ascribing the discovery of the cause of ...
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... organ of vision . Its influence , I grant , upon animal life , is feeble compared with some of the other stimuli to be mentioned hereafter , but it Sleep , as I shall say hereafter , has a proportion of force . The involuntary , from ...
... organ of vision . Its influence , I grant , upon animal life , is feeble compared with some of the other stimuli to be mentioned hereafter , but it Sleep , as I shall say hereafter , has a proportion of force . The involuntary , from ...
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... organs of hearing they strike with the force of thunder . The existence of these sounds is evident , from the reports of persons who have ascended a mile or two from the earth in balloons . They tell us , that the silence in the upper ...
... organs of hearing they strike with the force of thunder . The existence of these sounds is evident , from the reports of persons who have ascended a mile or two from the earth in balloons . They tell us , that the silence in the upper ...
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