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... brain in the region of the fourth ventricle . These cases constitute a hopeless class , the danger sudden , the course rapid , the fatal end sure . The symptoms of paralysis from mental strain are usually less sudden in their approach ...
... brain in the region of the fourth ventricle . These cases constitute a hopeless class , the danger sudden , the course rapid , the fatal end sure . The symptoms of paralysis from mental strain are usually less sudden in their approach ...
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... brain , than in exercise of brain ; and that excessive exercise of brain is a cause not of mental , but of physical derangement . Our uneducated , cloddish populations are , in short , as I venture to assume , the breeders of our ...
... brain , than in exercise of brain ; and that excessive exercise of brain is a cause not of mental , but of physical derangement . Our uneducated , cloddish populations are , in short , as I venture to assume , the breeders of our ...
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... brain ; Mayow continues to teach that there is a furnace in the animal body burning by the air ; Black and Priestly tell the nature of the combustion ; Haller adds physics to physic , and Boerhaave scientific chemistry ; Pinel puts the ...
... brain ; Mayow continues to teach that there is a furnace in the animal body burning by the air ; Black and Priestly tell the nature of the combustion ; Haller adds physics to physic , and Boerhaave scientific chemistry ; Pinel puts the ...
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... brain and cold blood , it is growing more harmless , day by day , under the influence of exposure , and its own idiotic feebleness . Leaving then the negative side of the question , let us con- sider in what way our lines of research ...
... brain and cold blood , it is growing more harmless , day by day , under the influence of exposure , and its own idiotic feebleness . Leaving then the negative side of the question , let us con- sider in what way our lines of research ...
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... not our office to econo- mise the gifts of nature , and lend her wealth to health ? Is it not our office to soothe the troubled mind , and bring the disturbed brain to equilibrium of power ? If these be On Research in Medicine . 37.
... not our office to econo- mise the gifts of nature , and lend her wealth to health ? Is it not our office to soothe the troubled mind , and bring the disturbed brain to equilibrium of power ? If these be On Research in Medicine . 37.
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