Drunkenness / by George R. Wilson.

  • Wilson, George R. (George Robert)
Date:
1897
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Drunkenness / by George R. Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    any known stimuli. In brains which are of what is called an “ unstable ” quality, this tendency to discharge independently of ap- propriate stimuli is sometimes manifest in the nervous mechanism of the higher1 functions. Such an action is called “fulminating” or “ex- plosive.” “ Fulmination ” is an automatic dis- turbance in centres which have accumulated energy to the point of spontaneou discharge. The defect which causes it is a lack of inhibitory quality, to which we shall advert later. There is no adequate stimulus to account for a fulmin- ating discharge ; and it usually occurs with some kind of periodicity. A convulsive seizure is a “fulminating neurosis” of the motor centres; morbid mental processes, marked by periodic unaccountable paroxysms, are called “ fulmin- ating psychoses.” Another and fundamental principle of nervous action, the Law of Coincidence, as laid down by Hughlings Jackson and others, ensures that every function or use of the body, and every process of the mind, is represented in some sort by a sensori-motor mechanism in the nervous system. Some of the organs have Functionally, not locally. i
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