A new view of insanity : The duality of the mind proved by the structure, functions, and diseases of the brain, and by the phenomena of mental derangement, and shewn to be essential to moral responsibility. With an appendix ... / By A.L. Wigan.

  • Wigan, A. L. (Arthur Ladbroke)
Date:
1844
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Credit: A new view of insanity : The duality of the mind proved by the structure, functions, and diseases of the brain, and by the phenomena of mental derangement, and shewn to be essential to moral responsibility. With an appendix ... / By A.L. Wigan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    average of humanity; admiration, of the energy and perseverance with which they have been cultivated; and alarm, lest the physical structure of the material organ should be spoiled by such excessive exertion of its faculties. To see ourselves, says Lord Bacon, we must look down. Let us humbly exercise within their proper bounds, the glorious faculties which it has pleased the Almighty to bestow upon us; and when we have finished our worldly task, and spun, like the silkworm, our allotted cocoon, let us wait till a more genial atmosphere shall call us to a higher destiny. When the chrysalis bursts from his torpor and his prison, and is furnished with wings, he has a wider horizon, a more extended view, and increased faculties for the enjoyment of happiness.