The principles of physiology by John Augustus Unzer; and A dissertation on the functions of the nervous system, by George Prochaska.

  • Unzer, Johann August, 1727-1799.
Date:
1851
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    INDEX UNZER'S PRINCIPLES OF PHYSIOLOGY. [N.B.—The figures in this Index refer to the numbers of .the paragraphs.] Abstraction, definition of, 77 ; many ma- terial ideas cease, or become weaker in, 77, 140 Action, muscular, animal when excited by nerves, 163; from external im- pressions and their direct nerve-ac- tions, 452-465; from internal non- conceptional impressions, 507; may be a sentient action or a nerve action, or both, 514 ; nature of investigated, 161, 380; effected solely through nerves, 388 Action, reflex, see Reflexion, and Im- pressions, external and internal. Actions, animal, see Animal actions. Actions, sentient, defined, 6; are direct and indirect, 97-110; the conceptive force co-operates in, 111; how pro- duced, 112; a conceptional impression necessary to, 123; when produced directly by external sensations, 129; when produced by conceptions, 130; chai'acter of those excited by cerebral impressions, 133; when produced by external sensations, how prevented, 134; when caused by spontaneous conceptions, hindrances to, 136, 138; when produced by external sensations, how enfeebled, or prevented, 139; occur in the oesophagus and intestinal canal, 170; occur in the stomach, 174 ; in the liver, 175 ; in the kidneys, 176; in the urinary bladder, ib.\ in the organs of the external senses, 177 ; in the sexual organs, 178; when not direct results of the external sensa- tions, 181; when at the same time nerve-actions, 183, 363; how influ- enced by the consciousness of an im- pression,184,ii; from other conceptions, often confounded with those from ex- ternal sensations, 185; of agreeable and disagreeable external sensations, 195; of gratification, 197; of pain, 198 ; developed even in the non-mus- cular membranes, 208; of external Actions {continued) sensations in the heart, stomach, &c., 204-218; the incidental [zufallig], 219-224; the subordinate, 225; the co-ordinate, 227 ; of imaginations, see Imaginations; of the memoiy, 238 ; of the foreseeings, see Foreseeings; of the sensational desires and aversions, 255; of the sensational propensities and emotions, 260; of the instincts, 281-292; of the passions, 306-329; of the intellectual conceptions, 330; may all be produced without brain, or mind, or conceptions, 367; transfor- mation of, into nerve-actions, or vice versa, 367, 368; often result from direct nerve-actions of external im- pressions on the muscles, 448; substi- tution of, for nerve-actions, 580-593 Affections, 91 Affectentriebe, the instinctive passions, 296-304 Afferent and efferent fibrils in the same nerve, doctrine of, 127 note, 486- 488 Age, old, its phenomena, 701 Ahndungen, 73. See Forebodings. Albinus, his doctrine of the anatomical distinctness of the nerve-fibrils anti- cipating Miiller, 39 note; MSS. of, in possession of Sir W. Hamilton, ib. Anger, always a passion, 301; a de- pressing one, 322 ; its sentient actions how composed, ib.; its union with revenge, 324; the special changes its sentient actions produce, 325 ; means of controlling, 326; its sentient ac- tions may be induced by the vis nervosa only, 572 Animal, a purely sensational, see Sensa- tional animal. Animal, a reasoning, see Reasoning ani- mal. Animal, a sentient, see Sentient animal. Animal, an insentient, see Insentient animal.