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. 1852 Excerpt: ...but this seems to me to be closely allied to reverie, or mere abstraction, where great determination of nervous power to some particular part of the cerebral substance, in deep thought or intense emotion, shall leave other portions unsupplied or deprived for a moment. This loss of the capacity of retaining impressions, ...
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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. 1852 Excerpt: ...but this seems to me to be closely allied to reverie, or mere abstraction, where great determination of nervous power to some particular part of the cerebral substance, in deep thought or intense emotion, shall leave other portions unsupplied or deprived for a moment. This loss of the capacity of retaining impressions, the common form of amnesia, is remarkable generally in the aged. They recollect what happened long ago; they retrace the events of childhood; but the acts and sufferings of yesterday pass away entirely from their minds. This may be the result, and I doubt not often is, of dullness and unimpressibility of the senses, which receive impulses imperfectly, and of course they leave no vestige. A curious case is related by Ware, in which the same condition occurred as produced by, or following, prolonged sea-sickness. The subject suffered "a total loss of memory of recent events"--probably of one or two years back; "while he would converse with entire correctness and recollection on all subjects connected with the events and pursuits of the earlier periods of his life. He was unhappily conscious of the state of mind into which he had fallen." Prof. Jackson has given a history of a transient amnesia, in which, without any paralysis of the tongue, the recollection of words was so totally lost that the subject, thinking freely and accurately, in vain attempted to ex r press or write his thoughts. Vascular pressure on the brain being relieved by venesection, the faculty was restored. I met with, and published an account of a somewhat similar case in 1830. My patient was more permanently affected, remaining a long while absolutely incapable of finding certain words. These he could generally read, but not always. He remained perfectly ...
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Very Good. Dr. Dickson was Professor of Institutes and Practice of Medicine in the Medical College of the State of South Carolina. Brown gilt cloth with gold spine lettering. Previous owner's name written on front free end-paper. There is no other writing in the book. 301pp., with a 24-page Publisher's Catalog. Light damptains on a few pages and mild foxing. Solid copy. Tight binding. Full refund if not satisfied.
