The hygiene of mind / by T. S. Clouston.

  • Clouston, T. S. (Thomas Smith), 1840-1915.
Date:
1907
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Credit: The hygiene of mind / by T. S. Clouston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    CHAPTER III PAGE How the Brain Mechanism works in regard to Mind . . . . . . .26 The most difficult study in Nature—Chemical processes—Physi- cal processes—Vital processes and mental processes all asso- ciated—Reflex action is easily conceivable, not so consciousness and organisation, a chasm with no bottom—Consciousness and mind conditioned by brain processes—The nerve-cell and the muscle—Relations of cell to blood—Anabolism and Katabolism —Mind-cell stimuli—Stimuli from senses, from action of in- ternal organs—Registration of stimuli—Printing on the brain— The phonograph—Laura Bridgman and Helen Keller—Brain and mental attributes and faculties and how they work and are related. Necessity to Energise: Implies continuous repair, adjustment, and regulation of stimuli—All the brain cells do not act at the same time—Presentation and Representation. Sleep: Brain repair—Dreaming. Rcactiveness: Different results of the same and of different stimuli in different brains—Range of man's reactiveness the greatest in Nature to influences and stimuli from within and without—Disturbed brain reactiveness from disease. Brain and Mental Resistivencss : Importance—Defence against ever-present enemies—Microbes—Hygiene largely consists in strengthening Nature's defences—Alcohol, opium, &c, and resistiveness—Examples of broken-down resistiveness—Sound health and resistiveness. Brain and Mental Solidarity: Whether one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. The Hierarchy in the Brain: Nerve centres and faculties higher and lower in grade—A regiment—Inhibitory centres— Colonel-in-chief—Innate differences in different persons and races—Limits to all faculties and powers—Do not approach those limits—Hereditary weaknesses. Brain and Mental Habit: Physiological doctrine and univer- sality of habit in all vital processes. Habit and Inhibition : Brain fibre connections formed in child go with repeated action—Habit and Memory. The metaphysical mental faculties, instincts, appetites, vitalities and organic necessities, and their relation—Conscious- ness—Feeling—Emotion—Idealism—Reasoning—Volition—In- hibition—Power of attention—Representation—Imagination— Association of ideas—Moral faculties—Religious instincts— Memory—Love of Life—Reproductive instinct—Gregarious and