The influence of the mind on the body / by Doctor Paul Dubois ; tr. from the 5th French edition by L. B. Gallatin.

  • Dubois, Paul, 1848-1918.
Date:
1906
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Credit: The influence of the mind on the body / by Doctor Paul Dubois ; tr. from the 5th French edition by L. B. Gallatin. 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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    But in consenting to serve himself he could free himself from this dependence. ''The soul has not this resource. And the dependence goes further. If the ques- tion was only of the inferior part of the psychical life, sensation, that is the feel- ings of the body, one could say: The soul depends on the organs in all the operations which have their origin outside. But in its own hfe, its intellectual working, it is mistress and not servant, it does not de- pend upon the body. Unhappily for the theory, this is not always true. Even in the most simple act of intelligence there is a necessary concurrence; a concurrence of the organs which is important. The brain works in the skull of a thinker. There are vibrations of the cells in the cortical bed of the brain; there is, to render these possible, a sanguinary afflux as much more abundant as the intellectual effort is more intense; there is a rise in the tem- perature which results from it; there is [12]