An attempt to detect the physiological processes by which thinking is effected : more especially in persons whose organs of sense are defective / by R. Fowler.

  • Richard Fowler
Date:
1852
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Credit: An attempt to detect the physiological processes by which thinking is effected : more especially in persons whose organs of sense are defective / by R. Fowler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    10] PAGE. Touch felt only at moments of contact and sepa- ration Instinctive adjustments do not require to be drilled—the voluntary do 33 Sir Joshua Reynolds drilled his eyes for correct observation of Raphael’s pictures by inspecting them every day for a year 33 Instinct, the result of Mind Force, limited by the structure of the organs through which it acts . 33 Association of Ideas 34 Cause, not an innate idea 35 Retransmissions to Arteries 35 Projection of Conceptions excited by Sensations, and this explains cases such as Cheselden’s boy, in whom the conceptions of light were projected to his sense of touch (fingers) 36 Motion of fixed lights seen with unadjusted eyes 37 Mind active in searching for relation of objects or conceptions 37 Sir Charles Bell’s explanation of searching for distinct sensations 38 Two Nerves in every adjusting Muscle, one of sensation, another motor—exciting motion .. 39, 40 All Perceptive Sensations by Muscular Sense .. 41 Sense of Touch in the Muscles of Stumps of Amputated Limbs 42 We are longer occupied by our conceptions than by our dealing with realities 42 Dr. Read on Touch 43 Touch by Muscular Sense 44
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