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acquired activity acute afferent nerve animal appear attack automatic become blood bodily body brain cause cerebellum cerebral hemispheres character child co-ordinate complex conception condition connexion consciousness consequence constitution convolutions convulsions corpora quadrigemina definite degeneration delirium delusion dementia derangement disease disorder display effect emotion energy epilepsy excited exhibited existence experience fact faculty feeling force function ganglionic cells give rise hallucinations human idea ideational idiots impressions impulse incoherent individual innate insanity instinct irritation kind less mania manifest matter medulla oblongata melancholia ment mental action metaphysical mind monomania moral morbid morbid action motor intuition movements muscles muscular necessary nerve nerve-cell nervous centres nervous element nervous system nutrition observation organic element painful paralysis particular passion patient physiological pia mater produced reaction reflex action relations residua result sensation sense sensibility sensory ganglia sometimes spinal centres spinal cord stimulus symptoms takes place things thought tion tissue unconscious volition
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Page 62 - O Adam, one Almighty is, from whom. All things proceed, and up to him return, If not depraved from good, created all Such to perfection, one first matter all, Endued with various forms, various degrees Of substance, and, in things that live, of life...
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