Principles of mental physiology : with their applications to the training and discipline of the mind, and the study of its morbid conditions / by William B. Carpenter.

  • Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Principles of mental physiology : with their applications to the training and discipline of the mind, and the study of its morbid conditions / by William B. Carpenter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS, BOOK I. GENEEAL PHYSIOLOaY. CHAPTER I. Op the Generaij Relations between Mind and Body. Prevalent neglect of tte study, 1, 2 ; Materialistic hypothesis, 2-5; Self- determining power, 5, 6 ; Spiritualistic hypothesis, 7-9 ; Truths and Errors in both, 10, 11; their reconcilement by the doctrine of Correlation between Mind and Force, 11-14; Physiological Mechanism, 15; Volitional and Automatic Move- ments of Body, 15-24; Automatic Activity of Mind, 25-28 ; Attention tha foundation of Yolitional power, 25; mode of its exercise, 26-28. CHAPTER II. * Op the Nervous System and its Functions. 1. Relation of the Nervous System to the Body generally:—Apparatus of imal Life, 29 ; Apparatus of Organic Life, 30, 31; Relations of the two, 31, 32. 2. Elementary Structwe of the Nervous System :—Nerve-trunks and Ganglia, .33 ; Nerve-fibres, 33-35; Nerve-cells, 35-37 ; Afferent and Motor fibres, 37, 38 ; dependence of Nervous power on supply of Oxygenated Blood, 38-40. 3. Different Forms and Modes of Action of Nervous Apparatus .-—Simplest type of Animal life, 41-44 ; Building actions of Rhizopods, 43 ; Nervous System of Aacidian, 45, 46 ; Reflex Action, 46-48 ; Nervous System of higher MoUusks, 49, 50; of Articulata, 51-53 ; Reflex Actions, 53-56 ; Instinctive Actions of Insects, 56-61; Nervous System of Vertebrata, 61-64 ; of Fishes, 65, 66; of Reptiles, 67, 68 ; Reflex Action, 68-79 ; Nervous System of Birds, 79 ; their Instincts and Intelligence, 80-90 ; Nervous System of Mammals, 91-105 ; Nerves of Internal Senses, 99,111-113; Distinctive Attributes of Man, 105-108 ; Relation f-f Cerebrum to Sensorium, 108-116; Convolutions of Cerebrum, 116, 117. 4. General Summary:—Pvmclional Relations of the GamjUonic Centres of the Circlro-Spinal System, of Man, 118-125; Sympathetic System, 125-129.