A syllabus of the lectures delivered at the Massachusetts Medical College : to the medical students of Harvard University.

  • James Jackson
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[1816]
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Credit: A syllabus of the lectures delivered at the Massachusetts Medical College : to the medical students of Harvard University. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ »2 ] a. Perception. b. Confcioufnefs. c. Attention. d. Memory. e. Reflection. f. Imagination. g. Judgment. h. Volition, &c. 3d. Exercife of bodily organs under the ob- vious control of the mind. a. Locomotion. b. Voice. Comparifon of organic and animal organs and functions. Animal organs divided by median line—their fymmetry and harmony. In two ftates—fleep and watching. Sleep perfect and total, or imperfect and partial. Subject to education and influence of habit. Organic differ in thefe refpects—functions in a certain fucceffion and dependence—liable to fympa- thy as the animal organb, but not fubject to control of mind—influenced by fleep, but not fubject to it. Some conftant, others occaiional. How far influ- enced by habit. By animal functions external relations are main- tained and operations of mind performed. By or- ganic functions foreign matter converted to the ufe of the body, and internal economy of fyftem maintained. On them moft immediately depends the maintenance of health and of life.
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