Our brain, body and nerves / by Andrew Wilson.

  • Wilson, Andrew
Date:
1911
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Our brain, body and nerves / by Andrew Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS CHAPTER I PAGE THE BASHFUL MAN I An old book—The story of the bashful man— Demands of the age—Overworked brain cells— How to avoid the evils—Blushing not a disease— The rdle of our nervous apparatus—Byways of nerve work—The physiological point of view—The line of study before us. CHAPTER II THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND SOME OF ITS WAYS . I4 The nervous system defined—Plan of evolution of nervous system—The brain system—the sympathetic nerve system—Nature’s purpose in, and the ad- vantages of the dual system—Man and his brain system—The “organs” of the brain—The analysis of a simple action—The thought—The will to do— The act—Apparatus involved—Reflex action— Nerve centres—Examples of reflex action—Ingoing and outgoing messages—Inhibited will power and reflex action—The reflex action called blushing— The heart and its nervous mechanisms.