Changes produced in the nervous system by civilization : considered according to the evidence of physiology and the philosophy of history / by Robert Verity.

  • Verity, Robert.
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1839
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    CHAPTER XXXIV. Influence of civilization on food, clothing, mode of life, habits, &c.—Their re-action again upon civilization . 95 CHAPTER XXXV. Intellectual progression—Development in the cerebral system 98 CHAPTER XXXVI. The elements of the intellectual nervous system, as com- prised in the different methods of Inquiry , .106 CHAPTER XXXVII. What general physiological changes take place with civili- zation in individuals and rising nations . . .109 CHAPTER XXXVIII. Influence of these changes upon Practical Medicine . .113 CHAPTER XXXIX. These changes most frequently are but partially effected— Unequal distribution of temperament and structure in the same individual . . . . . .117 CHAPTER XL. Over refinement of physical temperament leads to degene- racy of body and arrest of development . . .119 CHAPTER XLI. Difference of development in the cerebral system, between the savage and civihzed types . . . .122 CHAPTER XLII. Whether the development of the Cineritious System of the brain is commensurate with the extension of nervous activity and civilization . . . . . .12(5 CHAPTER XLIII. Partial changes in the cerebral system . , . .129 CHAPTER XLIV. Conclusions . . . . . • • .133