The brain : its development, architecture, functions and education a lecture delivered in the Assembly Rooms, Grahamstown, on 18th May, 1892 / by T. Duncan Greenlees.

  • Greenlees, T. Duncan.
Date:
1892
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Credit: The brain : its development, architecture, functions and education a lecture delivered in the Assembly Rooms, Grahamstown, on 18th May, 1892 / by T. Duncan Greenlees. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    thia but an example of the brain’s sympathy with the disordered liver ? Again the child’s brain is excessively sensitive or sympathetic, the most trivial infantile ailments often producing severe convulsions; while the same disease in grown-up people would not affect the brain to nearly the same extent. Speaking of children, perhaps there is no study more interesting than the investigation of what may be called “ the dawn of intel¬ lect ” in the little one—the mysterious awakening to life of baby’s mental faculties : how the various senses of seeing, hearing, etc., come into being one by one; how the smile of welcome indicates the faculty of recognition awakening, and how the little one’s emotions come to be expressed by the sunshine of laughter, the cooing of pleasure, or the shedding of tears—little drops falling like April showers! The study of baby’s mind is alike attrac¬ tive, whether it be considered from a religious, a scientific, or an aesthetic stand¬ point, and infant psychology, if pursued in the right direction, teaches us many import¬ ant lessons. While in former years the only consci¬ entious student in this field of labour was the mother, who rarely allows a passing change in baby’s condition to eseape her vigilant attention, and who watches intently the passing shadows across baby’s counten¬ ance; now of late years “the scientific papa ” has invaded the aacredness of the nursery with his armamentarium of inves¬ tigating instruments, and, although the privacy and mystery of the nursery has thereby been sacrificed to the scientific spirit once for all, we have as a result of this invasion, many important contributions to