A treatise on emotional disorders of the sympathetic system of nerves / by William Murray.
- Murray, William, 1839-1920
- Date:
- 1868
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise on emotional disorders of the sympathetic system of nerves / by William Murray. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![exist; indeed their identit}^ lias been so fully acce])ted in the minds of men, that the two, the emotions and the organs, have not nnfrequently been spoken of nnder one term. The hoioels of the Apostle yearned after those he loved. The Jieai't was said to feel the pungency of joy or grief, &c. We would refer especially to the connection between the appetites and the emotions, because we shall have reason to believe that, though distinct in many respects, they are both to a certain extent, dependent upon the state of the visceral nerves, and are felt chiefly in the ganglionic centres of the sympathetic system. In the appetites we are conscious of a sensation which in- stinctively warns us of a want felt by the system at large, the sensation expressive of the want being referred to a par- ticular region in which the organ which specially ministers to the needs of the system in this respect is seated. Of this nature is the sensation of hunger, and appetite or desire for food, which has its seat in the region of the stomach. Thirst or liunger for fluids is another appetite expressing itself in sensations referable chiefly to the faucical and pharyngeal mucous membrane. The natural craving after certain stimuli, the love of light and exercise, the love of variety and of society, and even the irresistible impulse to obtain pure respirable air, the gasping for breath, are all the result of changes con- veyed to or going on in nervous centres, and expressing themselves in various internal visceral sensations which we call emotions or appetites as the case may be. The various appetites or lusts connected with sexual organs are also expressed by sensations emphatically con- nected with the viscera, and having much of their origin in them.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21068720_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
