Phrenology, or the doctrine of the mind : and of the relations between its manifestations and the body.
- Johann Spurzheim
- Date:
- 1825
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Phrenology, or the doctrine of the mind : and of the relations between its manifestations and the body. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ness and idiotisin the organ of tlie mind undergoes no kind of derangement ? It seems to me necessary to inquire into what changes may take ])lace in the cerebral mass generally, or in any of its ])articular parts ; and also to consider, whether de¬ rangements may not happen, thougli imperceptible by any of the five external senses. If in one struck dead by lightning, or killed by gout in the stomach, or hydrophobia, or tetanus, no derangement in the nervous system be recognized, are we tlierefore authorized to say that the nervous system has really suHered no change whatever ? Dr. Gall and I are of opinion that all deranged manifestations of the mind result immediately from some change in the brain. AVe recognize the remote causes of cerebral diseases often con- nected with derangements of the abdominal viscera; but we say that its immediate cause resides in the brain. Intestinal worms occasion bad breath, cough, grinding of the teeth, tickling in the nose, blindness, mental derangement, ; but the bowels, which are irritated, are no more the seat of insanity than of the tickling of the nose, the cough, or the blindness. It is also true that very considerable injuries of the brain sometimes disturb the mental manifestations very slightly ; and, on the contrary, that very slight injuries of the brain are often accompanied with the most violent symptoms. This, however, also happens in other parts of the body. Very large abscesses have been sometimes found in the 111110:8 without having been accompanied during life by any great derange¬ ment of the respiration; but the lungs are not less the organ of respiration on this account. Ossifications have sometimes occurred in the heart without any remarkable disturbance of the circulation; the heart, nevertheless, is still the organ of circulation. It is evidently wrong, then, to ascribe to the wound, or to its seat, that which must be attributed to the ]iaiiicular constitution of the patient alone ; and thus it is that we may conceive why no bad symptom should occasionally](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2929597x_0052.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
