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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    Conceptions, how caused, 25; impressions or representations of, 26; definition of natural, or organic and arbitrary voli- tions, 27 ; dependent on material ideas, ib.\ preceded by sensations, 65; of the understanding, 7^; of the me- mory, 71; their relation to attention, abstraction, meditation, and reflection, 77; either please or displease, 80; their relation to material ideas, 97- 151; necessary to true sentient ac- tions, 123, see Actions sentient; their course independent of others, 125; sensational and intellectual, 347; in- ternal impressions of, 359 note. Conceptive force [Empfindhchkeit], 65 Congestion, theory of, 207, 462 Connatural, as applied to agreeable ex- ternal sensations, 191, 196, 440 Connection, reciprocal, defined, 345 Consciousness, 80 Contractility, so called [Reiz], 3 Contranatural, as applied to disagreeable external sensations, 191, 196, 200 Convulsions, their nature, 204 Death, definition of, 703; the spiritual of a reasoning animal, 704; sensa- tional, 705 ; complete, 706; natural, 707; animal, 708; from what com- plete, may result, 711 716; animal life may continue after proper, 717 Desires, how developed in the mind, 81; three things to be distinguished in, 84-87; may be sensational or intel- lectual, wholly sensational, or more spontaneous, 89; sensational, nature of, 90; intellectual nature of, 96 Despair, a distressing passion, 313; its sentient actions may be induced by the vis nervosa only, 571 Diaphragm, the, is sensitive, and sub- ject to the will, 171; its sentient ac- tions from external sensations, 208; is capable of direct nerve-actions, 464 ; may be excited by non-conceptional internal impressions, 523; its natural action in respiration, 525 ; a centre of animal forces, 673, 688 Dichtungskraft, the poetic faculty, 248 Distress, how excited and developed, 309; its mental actions and various forms, ib. Dreams, the rules applicable to, 67-69; 70, 236; sensational foreseeings often produced in, 75, 247 Emotions, the, nature of, 91; their effect on the penis, 178 ; strong sensational stimuli conjoined in, 258 ; effects of the pleasing or distressing, how regu- lated, 259 Empfindung, commonly used in a three- fold sense, 34 note. Empfindlichkeit, see Sensibility. Erdichtungen, fictions, 70 Ersetzung, see Substitution. Excitants of the feelings, see Peelings. Exhilaration, the instinct for, 287, ii Expectations, see Anticipations. External impressions, see Impressions. External sensations, see Sensations. Faculty, the higher perceptive, 76; the poetic, 228 Fear, a distressing passion, 313, in what resembles and differs from terror, 320 ; may be induced by the vis nervosa only, 571 Feelings, incitements of the, 83; are sensational or intellectual, 88; add a special sentient action to those of con- ceptions, 250; excite the origin of those nerves by which vital move- ments are regulated, 251 Flesh, the, 90 ; warring against the spi- rit, 337 Food, the instinct for, its sensational stimulus, 281; its effects as a foresee- ing, 282 Forces of physical bodies, the general, 3; their aggregate, 4 Forces, animal, see Animal forces. Forces, animal-sentient, or cerebral, na- ture of, 6 note, 82 and note; their actions, 97-110; their relations to the vis nervosa, 541-597 ; their reciprocal connection, 590-597 Forces, nerve, defined, 6; depend on the vital spirits, 21; what retard the ac- tion of, 22; what strengthen and en- liven, 23 Forces, primary vital, nature of the, 675; the two reciprocally subordinate, 676 Forebodings, the nature of, 73 Foreseeings, nature of, 73, 23^; relations of, to desires and aversions, 81; rela- tions of, to instincts and passions, 90- 94 ; in what differ from true expecta- tions, 249; accompanying the depres- sing passions, 315-328 Free will, 96. See Will. Gall-bladder, see Bladder. Ganglia, are possessed by the motor nerves, 14; do not possess true cere- bral tissue, 35 note-, 624, iv; their probable use, 48, iv; their functions maybe changed through habit, 49, iv; probably deflect external impressions, 48, iv, 399; to the motor nerves per- form the office of brain, 399 GefiJhl, the external feeling of the nerves, 402