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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... lived ith his uncle for several years , and later became a physician imself . Eventually he was appointed Professor of Anatomy and hysiology at the Imperial Academy of Sciences at Petrograd now Leningrad ) . Rush gets the observation ...
... lived ith his uncle for several years , and later became a physician imself . Eventually he was appointed Professor of Anatomy and hysiology at the Imperial Academy of Sciences at Petrograd now Leningrad ) . Rush gets the observation ...
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... separate state of existence is omitted from the printed editions . See also our p . 522 . 3LAL ( 1799 ) , p . 19 , par . 3 : " exercise of the faculties of the mind . and active understandings.1 Idiots are seldom long lived . The 110 -
... separate state of existence is omitted from the printed editions . See also our p . 522 . 3LAL ( 1799 ) , p . 19 , par . 3 : " exercise of the faculties of the mind . and active understandings.1 Idiots are seldom long lived . The 110 -
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... lived . The Cretins in Valais in Switzerland , a race of idiots , 2 travellers tell us , all die young . Common ... lived as civilized people -- literary men , caeteris paribus , long lived . " LAL ( 1799 ) , p . 20 , adds : " Intense ...
... lived . The Cretins in Valais in Switzerland , a race of idiots , 2 travellers tell us , all die young . Common ... lived as civilized people -- literary men , caeteris paribus , long lived . " LAL ( 1799 ) , p . 20 , adds : " Intense ...
Page 113
... lived . Witness Newton , Franklin , Wesley , Rollin1 and a hundred others whose bodies for more than half a century were constantly under the stimulus of active and vigorous understandings . This influence of the good passions and ...
... lived . Witness Newton , Franklin , Wesley , Rollin1 and a hundred others whose bodies for more than half a century were constantly under the stimulus of active and vigorous understandings . This influence of the good passions and ...
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... lived to be eighty , who was not a person of an active understanding or of active passions.2 Take notice here that to be salutary , they should be exercised moderately . In our Pathology I shall mention many diseases , and even some ...
... lived to be eighty , who was not a person of an active understanding or of active passions.2 Take notice here that to be salutary , they should be exercised moderately . In our Pathology I shall mention many diseases , and even some ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...