Changes produced in the nervous system by civilization, considered according to the evidence of physiology and the philosophy of history / by Robert Verity.

  • Verity, Robert.
Date:
1837
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Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    amongst the easy and lettered classes of society; the operation and effect of different qualities of diet and hygienic regimen upon the nutrition and de- velopment of the chief systems of the body; the balance of action arising from the related state of the circulation to the nervous system, both in health and in disease ; and, lastly, the modified treatment of both acute and chronic affections, as a necessary consequence of recognising the existence of the predominating nervous organisation of modern in- dividuals compared with those of former times.* III. According to the plan just now succinctly laid down, the subject of our inquiry may at once be entered upon by turning towards the side of History. Here we find made out that there pre- vails a certain principle of progressive development in humanity, in proportion as civilization advances. Of late years this question has been more largely investigated, and certainly with singular success, by several writers on the Principles of Human Nature and the Philosophy of History, —writers of the highest capacity and compass of reflective thought—Vico,f Herder, Condorcet, Lord Kames, *This, the medical part of the work, it is intended to publisli at some future opportunity. (See Preface.) f The great genius, erudition, and extraordinary powers of B 5