Volume 1
Illustrations of the influence of the mind upon the body in health and disease : designed to elucidate the action of the imagination / by Daniel Hack Tuke.
- Date:
- 1884
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Illustrations of the influence of the mind upon the body in health and disease : designed to elucidate the action of the imagination / by Daniel Hack Tuke. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![activity is, that the receptivity of the Sensorium shall be suspended quoad the changes in question, either by the severance of structural connection, or through its tempo- rary engrossment by other objects ” (viii, p. 819). The reader can hardly fail to remark incidentally, from this sketch, how powerful a stimulus has from time to time been given to the study of psycho-physical facts by peculiar conditions of the nervous system, artificially in- duced* and usually denominated mesmeric. The author believes that this mine is far from having been exhausted, and that, more systematically worked, it will well repay the cerebral physiologist.f Glancing broadly, in conclusion, at the whole range of psycho-physical phenomena, it is clear that it would be taking a very contracted view of the relations between Mind and Body if we did not include in this relationship, a reference to the inseparable nexus existing between the two, arising out of the fact that the organ of the mind is the outgrowth and ultimate development of the tissues and organs of which the body itself is composed ; that it not only unites them in one common bond, but is, in truth, a microcosm of the whole. It is a fine expression of Swedenborg’s (a man who, through all his mysticism and mistiness, recognised some great truths) that the * The application of these facts to mental diseases is attempted in my Essay entitled “Artificial Insanity,” in the ‘Jcuarnal of Mental Science,’ April, 1865. See also “ Hypnotismus Redivivus,” Idem, Jan., 1881, and “Mental Condition in Hypnotism,” Idem, April, 1883. f This expectation, expressed in 1872, has happily been fulfilled, especially by the experiments made at the Salpetriere by Professor Charcot, and by Professor Heidenhain at Breslau [1883].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2191333x_0001_0047.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
