Syllabus of lectures on physiology / by Allen Thomson.

Date:
1835
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    gination of the person magnetized that the effects are primarily produced, or is there any appreciable bodily affection ? Spectral illusions; illusions of the organ of serj^e depending on mental af- fections only ; those depending on a local affection of the organ of sense. 66. Modification which the Functions undergo from Age, Constitution, Temperament, Habit, Custom, &c. § 67. Death. 1. Natural decay and dissolution of the system in old age. Circumstances in the physical construction and in the functions of the body which bring about natural decay of the system; alterations in structure and functions which the body undergoes in old age ; decay of the animal and organic functions. Ordinary duration of life; instances of extreme old age ; effect of climate, mode of life and other circumstances on this. Proportion of deaths in old age to those at earlier periods of life; liability of different ages, sexes, &c. to diseases which shorten life; influence of em- ployment, trades, professions, &c. on health, and the duration of life. 2. Sudden or violent death, and death from disease. Real and apparent death distinguished from one another. Phenomena of real and complete death, or the permanent extinction of the animal and or- ganic functions. States resembling death ; insensibility and loss of volun- tary power, in fainting, asphyxia, coma, &c, Various kinds of death. Views of Bichat. 1. Death arising from an affec- tion of the organs of circulation; 2. from that of the respiratory organs -7 3. from that of the nervous system acting on either of the above mentioned vital functions. | 68. Action of Poisons on the System*. Different kinds of poisons arranged according to the most prominent phe- nomena of their action on the animal economy. Irritant, narcotic, and nar- cotico-acrid poisons ; differences among poisons in respect to the class of func- tions which they affect primarily or secondarily. Must all poisons be absorbed into the circulatory system before they pro- duce their deleterious effects, or can any act directly or by sympathy on the nervous extremities? Observations of Orfila, Christison, Brodie, Magen- die, Segalas, Emmert, Verniere, Morgan and Addison, and others. * In the table page 5, this article has been misplaced before that on Death.