This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...in hundreds of cases, to the actual catastrophe of death. And what is more, we are not only conscious of the two natures, but we refer the emotional nature to its true seat. We say of sorrow, "it sits heavy on the heart," and the glow of pleasure, or the gust of fear, are each immediately conveyed to us by sensations ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...in hundreds of cases, to the actual catastrophe of death. And what is more, we are not only conscious of the two natures, but we refer the emotional nature to its true seat. We say of sorrow, "it sits heavy on the heart," and the glow of pleasure, or the gust of fear, are each immediately conveyed to us by sensations distinctly referable to the organic nervous centres, not to the reasoning brain, which at once endeavours to exert its controlling, its balancing power. And so intermittent action of the heart, as it is due to what may be considered accidental failure contracted during an intense emotional effort, or to senile failure of organic function, is traceable, I think, fairly and logically to failure of those centres of the sympathetic system which supplement the true cardiac centres in supplying contractile power. Of the nature of the failure of the nervous centres we know as yet so little, that the best pathologist can scarcely speak with authority. Indeed, the whole subject of the morbid changes belonging to the ganglia of the sympathetic system is still imperfectly known. But from a physiological point of view, we may safely infer that each centre of the nervous system is a reservoir or receptacle of force derived, not merely from the blood with which it is fed, but also from the parts which the nerves are said, incorrectly, to supply. In these centres, molecular changes, as yet, to us, imperceptible, may be understood as inducing deficiency of retaining power, and what is commonly called nervous debility and exhaustion, so that the centres cannot persistently carry on their allotted natural function. It will add to the truth of the theory I have put forward respecting the seat of disease in cases of intermittent pulse, to refer to an exp...
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