The Blot Upon the Brain: Studies in History and PsychologyPutnam, 1886 - 388 páginas |
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The Blot Upon the Brain: Studies in History and Psychology William Wotherspoon Ireland Vista de fragmentos - 1972 |
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amongst answered aphasia appeared asylum Augustus believe blood body brain Cæsars Caligula called Catherine caused centres character Charles Chinon Claudius colour Commodus consciousness corpus callosum cruelty daughter Delhi delusions deranged devil disease Drusus emperor English epilepsy epileptic excited eyes father fear Felida Ferishta followed France give grey matter hallucinations hallucinations of hearing hand head heard hemisphere Ibn Batuta ideas images imbecile impressions India insanity irritation Ivan Joan Joan of Arc king learned lived mental Messalina mind mirror-writing Mohammed Toghlak mother nature Nero nerve nervous neurosis never objects observed occipital lobe optic optic tract Orleans passed patient Philip prince prophet put to death recognise reign religious Russia seems seen sensation sense sensory sent side sight sometimes sounds Suetonius sultan tells things thought throne Tiberius tion told Tsar tyrant vision voices wife woman words writes Xavier
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Página 221 - An expert accountant, for example, can sum up, almost with a single glance of his eye, a long column of figures. He can tell the sum with unerring certainty ; while, at the same time, he is unable to recollect any one of the figures of which that sum is composed : and yet nobody doubts, that each of these figures has passed through his mind, or supposes, that when the rapidity of the progress becomes so great that he is unable to recollect the various steps of it, he obtains the result by a sort...
Página 288 - Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded ; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.
Página 188 - ... of children, and commanded by a child, set out for the purpose of recovering the Holy Land They came for the most part from Germany, and reached Genoa without harm. But finding there an obstacle which their imperfect knowledge of geography had not anticipated, they soon dispersed in various directions. Thirty thousand arrived at Marseilles, where part were murdered, part proba bly starved, and the rest sold to the Saracens.
Página 220 - ... be able to recollect these volitions afterwards, and although he may during the time of his performance be employed in carrying on a separate train of thought.
Página 247 - The best and e.irliest sign of idiocy is the deficiency of grasp. The hand is flapped or vibrated about instead of being employed to seize or obtain an object. Imbeciles are clumsy in the use of the hands, and it is difficult to teach them any exercise or handicraft requiring method and dexterity.
Página 236 - I hear a coach drive along the street I look through the casement and see it ; I walk out and enter into it ; thus, common speech would incline one to think, I heard, saw, and touched, the same thing, — to wit, the coach. It is nevertheless certain, the ideas intromitted by each sense are widely different and distinct from each other; but having been observed constantly to go together, they are spoken of as one and the same thing.
Página 206 - When we look at a distant forest, we perceive a certain expanse of green. Of this, as an affection of our organism, we are clearly and distinctly conscious. Now, the expanse, of which we are conscious, is evidently made up of parts of which we are not conscious.
Página 221 - The other is, that when the rapidity exceeds a certain rate, the operation is taken entirely out of our hands ; and is carried on by some unknown power, of the nature of which we are as ignorant, as of the cause of the / circulation of the blood, or of the motion of the intestines.* The /* last supposition seems to me to be somewhat similar to that of a man who should maintain, that, although a body projected with a moderate velocity, is seen to pass through all the intermediate spaces in moving...
Página 222 - It is a remarkable confirmation of this view," he observes, "that ideas which have passed out of the conscious memory sometimes express themselves in voluntary muscular movements, to the great surprise of the individuals exercising them." So far from thinking this statement a confirmation of any view, most people will think that it requires itself to be confirmed, and their mistrust will, perhaps, not be lessened when they find that Dr. Carpenter has to appeal to the spirit-rappers for assistance....
Página 216 - Looking at nerve force as a special form of physical energy, it may be deemed not altogether incredible that it should exert itself from a distance so as to bring the brain into direct dynamical communication with that of another, without the intermediation either of verbal language or of movements of expression.