Psychology Applied to Medicine: Introductory StudiesF. A. Davis Company, 1907 - 141 pages |
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... side , discovering the principles of hygiene , aseptic surgery , antitoxin , scientific medicine , etc. It has not given attention to the psychic side , but there is evident an increased interest , and a few medical schools have ...
... side , discovering the principles of hygiene , aseptic surgery , antitoxin , scientific medicine , etc. It has not given attention to the psychic side , but there is evident an increased interest , and a few medical schools have ...
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... side - tracked , and are forever con- signed to infericr positions . These are the animals whose mentality never rises above the plane of instincts . As morphological connecting links are wanting , so in a still more emphatic way is ...
... side - tracked , and are forever con- signed to infericr positions . These are the animals whose mentality never rises above the plane of instincts . As morphological connecting links are wanting , so in a still more emphatic way is ...
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... side . This latch is opened by lifting it . Besides this , moreover , the gate is fastened on the garden side by a string nailed to a gate - post . Here , as often as one wished , could the following sight be observed . If the little ...
... side . This latch is opened by lifting it . Besides this , moreover , the gate is fastened on the garden side by a string nailed to a gate - post . Here , as often as one wished , could the following sight be observed . If the little ...
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... side , which , tightly drawn , held the gate firmly against the post , so that if the large dog raised the latch , and let go , it would every time fall back on the hook , and this device was successful for quite a time , until it hap ...
... side , which , tightly drawn , held the gate firmly against the post , so that if the large dog raised the latch , and let go , it would every time fall back on the hook , and this device was successful for quite a time , until it hap ...
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... sides it merges into the two extremes , its very existence tends to emphasize the gulf between instinct and reason . This difference is thus seen to be not merely one of degree but one of kind . The hights to which human reason may ...
... sides it merges into the two extremes , its very existence tends to emphasize the gulf between instinct and reason . This difference is thus seen to be not merely one of degree but one of kind . The hights to which human reason may ...
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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.