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. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. H SESI2: Ob, THE STRUCTURE. In the first chapter of the present Essay, we endeavoured to define with accuracy that limited portion in the field of science which was to constitute the seat of labour. In the second chapter we were engaged in those processes which are found necessary for the ...
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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. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. H SESI2: Ob, THE STRUCTURE. In the first chapter of the present Essay, we endeavoured to define with accuracy that limited portion in the field of science which was to constitute the seat of labour. In the second chapter we were engaged in those processes which are found necessary for the establishment of fundamental principles. It now remains for us to erect a structure, a methodically arranged repository for the crowd of facts pressing upon our attention, which illustrate the "influence exerted by the mind in the production and removal of anomalous and morbid conditions of the body." That influence, which the public have noticed from time to time in special instances, has constantly been acknowledged, feared or employed, by physicians in their general treatment of disease. But the diseases in which their attention has been most fully directed to this element, are the nervous disorders, including the various sub MORAL SUFFERINGS. 39 divisions of lypemania, epilepsy, suicidal and phrenitic mania, hysteria, and hypochondriasis. It is consequently in the annals of nervous disorder that assertions and proofs, both of the morbific and curative power of mind, are most frequently found. Thus, among French physicians, Mons. Esquirol remarks, with reference to the production of insanity: "Moral causes are much more frequent than physical. A comparison of the record of moral causes, kept at my establishment at the Salpetrifere, proves this; and the reports which I have since made at the same hospital, and at Charenton, confirm it. The memoir read by Pinel at the Institute in 1807 also demonstrates the same fact. A report made in Pennsylvania in 1812 gives the same result. Experience has demonstrated the same thing to Mr Tuke, founder and...
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