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Physiology for the Public; Plain Principles and Rules for the Preservation of the Functions of Both Body and Mind in a State of Health, Lectures


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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. 1842. Excerpt: ... as an accomplished and highly literary physician. He is one of the Secretaries of the Royal Academy; and we have observed that, on more than one occasion, he has been solicited to pronounce the funeral eloge over some distinguished son of science. He has recently published, in one of the French periodicals, an elegant Essay on Moral Therapeutics, or the influence which the mind and passions exercise in the production and cure of various diseases. It is certainly a good subject for a medical theme, affording ample scope alike for the observations of the practical physician and the reflections of the thoughtful scholar. It was the remark of Napoleon that, in war, the moral are to the physical means as three to one--so highly did that consummate general rate the influence of mere mind on the issue of any great military enterprise. Now the same will often be found to hold good in the more peaceful operations of the healing art. It was observed that the officers engaged in the last war bore the fatigue, hardships, and privations inseparable from a campaign, at least as well, if not better, than the soldiery, although the former were in many instances the elite of the land; reared in the lap of luxury, with all the care and downy comfort which ingenuity or wealth could deyise or afford. How are we to account for this elastic endurance of unwonted bodily suffering? We are to find its explanation by reference to the mind, wiich has now its turn. I have already shown (p. 143) that the state of the corporeal functions influences to a humiliating extent the moral portion of our being: you have here to look at the converse of the proposition; the body now is enabled to endure the most unusual suffering, by the aid of the f attributes of mind, call that agency and tho...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150228544
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 96
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150228547
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 186 gr


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