A System of PhrenologyMarsh, Capen, and Lyon, 1838 - 664 páginas |
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... functions of the organ No. III . * I continue to entertain the views expressed in my works in regard to it . I may now add , without indelicacy , that it was perhaps the only cerebral organ in which the superiority of developement lay ...
... functions of the organ No. III . * I continue to entertain the views expressed in my works in regard to it . I may now add , without indelicacy , that it was perhaps the only cerebral organ in which the superiority of developement lay ...
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... functions ; and , even in the present day , the language of the vulgar , which is less affected by philosophical theories than that of polite scholars , is more in accordance with nature . " A stupid person is vulgarly called a numb ...
... functions ; and , even in the present day , the language of the vulgar , which is less affected by philosophical theories than that of polite scholars , is more in accordance with nature . " A stupid person is vulgarly called a numb ...
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... functions are never performed by the same organ , but , the reverse : each function has an organ for itself : thus , the stomach digests food , the liver se- cretes bile , the heart propels the blood , the eyes see , the ears hear , the ...
... functions are never performed by the same organ , but , the reverse : each function has an organ for itself : thus , the stomach digests food , the liver se- cretes bile , the heart propels the blood , the eyes see , the ears hear , the ...
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... functions of the mind . How comes that organ to be able to manifest one , but not all the faculties ? 6thly , Besides the phenomena of idiocy and insanity , there is also another class of facts ( to which , however , I shall only allude ) ...
... functions of the mind . How comes that organ to be able to manifest one , but not all the faculties ? 6thly , Besides the phenomena of idiocy and insanity , there is also another class of facts ( to which , however , I shall only allude ) ...
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... function to each department of the brain . Pinel also ( in the article Manie in the Encyclopedie Methodique ) after ... functions of different parts of the cerebrum and cerebellum . ' ” These considerations early impressed reflecting ...
... function to each department of the brain . Pinel also ( in the article Manie in the Encyclopedie Methodique ) after ... functions of different parts of the cerebrum and cerebellum . ' ” These considerations early impressed reflecting ...
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Acquisitiveness activity appears arises attention beauty Benevolence betwixt brain Causality cause Cautiousness cerebellum character circumstances colors Combativeness combination conception Conscientiousness consequence constitution convolutions deficient degree delight desire Destructiveness directed discover discovery disease disposition distinguished doctrine dura mater Edinburgh Review effect emotion endowment equal excited existence external objects fact feeling frontal bone frontal sinus functions Gall mentions gives head hence human Ideality ideas imagine impression individual insane instance instinctive intellectual faculties language largely developed Love of Approbation lower animals manifested manner medulla oblongata ment metaphysicians mind motion muscles nature nerves ness never observed optic nerve organ is large parietal bone particular passion perceive perception persons Philoprogenitiveness philosophers philosophy of mind Phrenological Society Phrenology physiologists possess predominates present primitive principle produces propensity proportion qualities reflection regard remarkable Secretiveness Self-Esteem sensation sense situated skull society Spurzheim supposed talent taste tendency Thomas Brown tion Veneration
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