Psychology Applied to Medicine: Introductory StudiesF. A. Davis Company, 1907 - 141 pages |
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... HABIT - • 1-15 Human instincts are transient unless developed into habits . " As the twig is bent the tree inclines . " Habits are reflex arcs , which like electric currents follow - - - -- - the path of least resistance ix.
... HABIT - • 1-15 Human instincts are transient unless developed into habits . " As the twig is bent the tree inclines . " Habits are reflex arcs , which like electric currents follow - - - -- - the path of least resistance ix.
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... follow by thrusting his snout between the gate and the post , and so pushing the gate open . When he was grown I forbade his being taken in , and had the gate kept latched . But he naturally still tried to follow when any one entered ...
... follow by thrusting his snout between the gate and the post , and so pushing the gate open . When he was grown I forbade his being taken in , and had the gate kept latched . But he naturally still tried to follow when any one entered ...
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... follow the path of least resistance . The development of habits . - The moral significance . " Man is a mere bundle of habits . " —The con- catenated impulse ; economic value.— Professional habits . – Intelligent reading is wise ...
... follow the path of least resistance . The development of habits . - The moral significance . " Man is a mere bundle of habits . " —The con- catenated impulse ; economic value.— Professional habits . – Intelligent reading is wise ...
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... follow . This establishes a path of motor discharge , which is per- haps the best physiological definition of habit . All reflex arcs follow this law , the sensation having gotten in , the efferent impulse probably follows the path of ...
... follow . This establishes a path of motor discharge , which is per- haps the best physiological definition of habit . All reflex arcs follow this law , the sensation having gotten in , the efferent impulse probably follows the path of ...
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... follows : - ΟΙΟ ΠΟΙ 2 I " Chicago " Boston * 000 ΠΟΙ -000 " At the point marked * I dropped asleep . I dreamed that I started on a long vacation trip , New York being my first stopping - point . The trip from Rochester to New York City ...
... follows : - ΟΙΟ ΠΟΙ 2 I " Chicago " Boston * 000 ΠΟΙ -000 " At the point marked * I dropped asleep . I dreamed that I started on a long vacation trip , New York being my first stopping - point . The trip from Rochester to New York City ...
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Page 40 - Tis clear enough the Elephant Is very like a tree!" The Fifth, who chanced to touch the ear, Said: "E'en the blindest man Can tell what this resembles most; Deny the fact who can, This marvel of an Elephant Is very like a fan!" The Sixth no sooner had begun About the beast to grope, Than, seizing on the swinging tail That fell within his scope, "I see," quoth he, "the Elephant Is very like a rope!
Page 40 - the Elephant Is very like a rope!" And so these men of Indostan Disputed loud and long, Each in his own opinion Exceeding stiff and strong, Though each was partly in the right, And all were in the wrong...
Page 40 - God bless me! but the Elephant Is very like a wall!" The Second, feeling of the tusk, Cried, "Ho! what have we here So very round and smooth and sharp? To me 'tis mighty clear This wonder of an Elephant Is very like a spear!
Page 5 - ... the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass by a process of...
Page 39 - IT was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind. The First approached the Elephant, And happening to fall Against his broad and sturdy side, At once began to bawl: "God bless me! but the Elephant Is very like a wall!
Page 23 - THERE IS A TIME in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till.
Page 133 - It is this principle of post hoc ergo proptcr hoc which has established ( ?) so many misconcqjtions and false theories as truths. Most Christian Scientists whom I have met are sure of their science because they have been cured. The theory has been accepted because "it cured me." Some one has facetiously remarked that there are "three kinds of lies: white lies, black lies and statistics"; and to a certain extent this is undoubtedly true.
Page 113 - ... continued, with similar testimony to its efficacy. On a certain Easter Sunday, that pious king, Louis XIV, touched about sixteen hundred persons at Versailles. This curative power was, then, acknowledged far and wide, by Catholics and Protestants alike, upon the Continent, in Great Britain, and in America ; and it descended not only in spite of the transition of the English kings from Catholicism to Protestantism, but in spite of the transition from the legitimate sovereignty of the Stuarts to...
Page 42 - ... unknowable. He learns at once the greatness and the littleness of human intellect — its power in dealing with all that comes within the range of experience ; its impotence in dealing with all that transcends experience.
Page v - PSYCHOLOGY APPLIED TO MEDICINE. — Introductory studies by David W. Wells, MD, lecturer on Mental Physiology, and Assistant in Ophthalmology, Boston University Medical School; Ophthalmic Surgeon, Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital, Boston; Oculist, Newton (Mass.) Hospital.