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" ... as happens with regard to the primary effects of opium, wine, and spirits. After a certain point, however, this exaltation of function is followed by a state of depression, far greater than the torpor of natural sleep. "
Neurypnology; or, The rationale of nervous sleep, considered in relation ... - Page 23
by James Braid - 1843 - 265 pages
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The Intellectual Observer, Volume 1

Science - 1862 - 552 pages
...the pulse will speedily become greatly accelerated, and the limbs involuntarily fixed. It will now be found that all the organs of special sense, excepting...sight, including heat and cold, and muscular motion and resistance, and certain mental faculties, are at first prodigiously exalted. It is such an exaltation...
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The Intellectual Observer, Volume 1

Science - 1862 - 558 pages
...the pulse will speedily become greatly accelerated, and the limbs involuntarily fixed. It will now be found that all the organs of special sense, excepting...sight, including heat and cold, and muscular motion and resistance, and certain mental faculties, are at first prodigiously exalted. It is such an exaltation...
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Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art ...

1864 - 382 pages
...the pulse will (speedily become greatly accelerated, and the limbs involuntarily fixed. It will now be found that all the organs of special sense, excepting...sight, including heat and cold, and muscular motion and resistance, and certain mental faculties, are at first prodigiously exalted. It is such an exaltation...
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Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art ...

Industrial arts - 1867 - 378 pages
...the pulse will speedily become greatly accelerated, and the limbs involuntarily fixed. It will now be found that all the organs of special sense, excepting...sight, including heat and cold, and muscular motion and resistance, and certain mental faculties, are at first prodigiously exalted. It is such an exaltation...
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A Dictionary of Medicine: Including General Pathology, General ..., Volume 1

Richard Quain - Medicine - 1882 - 1036 pages
...limbs in the extended position, and thus the pulse will speedily become fjreatly accelerated, ami his limbs in process of time will become quite rigid and involuntarily fixed.' By slightly prolonging this process a condition of profound 'nervous sleep' may be induced, in which...
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A Dictionary of Medicine: Including General Pathology, General Therapeutics, ...

Richard Quain - Dictionaries - 1883 - 1858 pages
...limbs ill the extended position, and thus the pulse will speedily become greatly accelerate,!, and his limbs in process of time will become quite rigid and involuntarily fixed." By slightly prolonging this process a condition of profound 'nervous sleep' may he induced, in which...
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Illustrations of the influence of the mind upon the body in health and diseases

Daniel Hack Tuke - 1884 - 530 pages
...retain the limbs in the extended position, and thus the pulse will speedily become greatly accelerated, and the limbs in process of time will become quite...or resistance, and certain mental faculties, are, atßrst, prodigiously exalted, such as happens with regard to the primary effects of opium, wine, and...
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A System of Psychology, Volume 2

Daniel Greenleaf Thompson - Psychology - 1884 - 1102 pages
...retain the limbs in the extended position, and thus the pulse will speedily become greatly accelerated, and the limbs in process of time will become quite...motion or resistance and certain mental faculties, are atfirst prodigiously exalted, such as happens with regard to the primary effects of opium, wine, and...
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Sleep-walking and Hypnotism

Daniel Hack Tuke - Psychology - 1884 - 158 pages
...exhausted, the result as to loss of controlling power is the same. " It will be found," says Mr. Braid, " that all the organs of special sense, excepting sight,...mental faculties, are at first prodigiously exalted. .... After a certain point, however, this exaltation of function is followed by a state of depression...
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The Journal of Mental Science, Volume 29

Electronic journals - 1884 - 676 pages
...because they are exhausted, and not because they are inhibited. " It will be found," says Mr. Braid, " that all the organs of special sense, excepting sight,...heat and cold and muscular motion or resistance, and certaiu mental faculties are . at first prodigiously exalted After a certain point, however, this exaltation...
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