Remarks on the influence of mental cultivation and mental excitement upon health / By Amariah Brigham.

  • Brigham, Amariah, 1798-1849.
Date:
1845
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Credit: Remarks on the influence of mental cultivation and mental excitement upon health / By Amariah Brigham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SECTION I. THE BRAIN THE MATERIAL ORGAN BY WHICH THE MENTAL FACULTIES ARE MANIFESTED. Every part of the human system has undoubted- ly been created for the performance of some ac- tion ; as the heart for the circulation of the blood, the eye for seeing, the ear for hearing, the nerves for sensation, the bones to sustain, and the mus- cles to move the body. | That action which nature intended a certain or- gan to perform, cannot be executed by another or- gan; the ear cannot supply the place of the eye, or the nerves perform the duties assigned to the muscles. The particular action or duty assigned to several organs of the body we know by the evi- dence of our senses. We can see and feel the heart beat and the muscles contract. But as re- gards the action or function of other organs, we have not the same evidence. We do not see the action by which the liver secretes the bile, nor that by which the eye conveys to us a knowledge