Psychology Applied to Medicine: Introductory StudiesF. A. Davis Company, 1907 - 141 pages |
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... seen that the nervous system , like its accompanying organism , progresses from the simple to the relatively complex , till in man it reaches a development capable of what we call reason . Undoubtedly psychology has drawn too sharp a ...
... seen that the nervous system , like its accompanying organism , progresses from the simple to the relatively complex , till in man it reaches a development capable of what we call reason . Undoubtedly psychology has drawn too sharp a ...
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... seen a green - backed warbler rearing the young cowbird . " Another correspondent is sure his dog thinks when he sits up in front of him while he is reading , and taps him on his back or leg as a reminder that he wants the ball in his ...
... seen a green - backed warbler rearing the young cowbird . " Another correspondent is sure his dog thinks when he sits up in front of him while he is reading , and taps him on his back or leg as a reminder that he wants the ball in his ...
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... seen to be not merely one of degree but one of kind . The hights to which human reason may mount are indeed uncomprehensible to the common mind . The vast range of phenomena which a great mind can assimilate at a glance often makes him ...
... seen to be not merely one of degree but one of kind . The hights to which human reason may mount are indeed uncomprehensible to the common mind . The vast range of phenomena which a great mind can assimilate at a glance often makes him ...
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... seen other things . And the interesting part of it all is that the man himself sel- dom realizes that he has well - defined campaign plans ready made for all ordinary occasions . The soldier knows , unconsciously ( if you will al- low ...
... seen other things . And the interesting part of it all is that the man himself sel- dom realizes that he has well - defined campaign plans ready made for all ordinary occasions . The soldier knows , unconsciously ( if you will al- low ...
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... seen in children who want to play bear . As the play goes on , espe- cially if some fur rugs be used , the auto - suggestion may be accepted with so little discrimination , that the child really becomes terribly scared . History is ...
... seen in children who want to play bear . As the play goes on , espe- cially if some fur rugs be used , the auto - suggestion may be accepted with so little discrimination , that the child really becomes terribly scared . History is ...
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Page 37 - 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 38 - 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 3 - ... 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 38 - Than, seizing on the swinging tail That fell within his scope, "I see," quoth he, "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 38 - the Elephant Is very like a snake!" The Fourth reached out his eager hand, And felt about the knee. "What most this wondrous beast is like Is mighty plain," quoth he; "Tis clear enough the Elephant Is very like a tree.
Page 21 - 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 131 - 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 38 - 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!
Page 111 - ... 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 iii - 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.