Clinical observations on functional nervous disorders / [C. Handfield Jones].

  • Jones, C. Handfield (Charles Handfield), 1819-1890
Date:
1864
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Credit: Clinical observations on functional nervous disorders / [C. Handfield Jones]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CLINICAL OBSERVATIONS ON FUNCTIONAL NERVOUS —-——- CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. Of all the parts which go to make up the wonderful whole of the human body, there is none to which a deeper and more mysterious interest is attached than to the nervous system. By this, we think and move, and have our conscious being; in this, if anywhere, inhabits our “ divinse particula aurse by this we are linked with the outer world, and are capable of affecting and being again affected by the persons and things around us. By this, our immaterial acts upon and sways our material part; and by the higher develop¬ ment of this, and its capability for higher actions, man is especially distinguished from the lower creation. All the passions and emotions, all the intellectual efforts, all the perceptions and recollections, operate through and on this system. If this be so, is it any wonder that exhaustion should frequently befall this delicate and complex machinery, or that its disorders should be amongst the most frequent that our fallen nature is B