Outlines of lectures on human physiology / By John Gordon.

  • John Gordon
Date:
1817
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Credit: Outlines of lectures on human physiology / By John Gordon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sect. II. 1- OF IDEAS OR THOUGHTS. 1. The Proximate Cause. Is in every instance an af- fection of the Immaterial Mind. Nature of this af- fection unknown. 2. The Remote Causes. Are all those phenomena which precede the affection of the Mind, and are necessary to it. A. Every Idea excited by the Idea or Sensation im- mediately preceding it. Reasons why one Idea is excited by a previous Sen- sation or Idea, in preference to any other. a. Principle of Previous Association. Memory. b. Principle of Resemblance or Analogy. c. Question whether there be any other Exciting Principles but these. B. No direct Voluntary Power over Thought. C. Reasons for believing that every Idea is preceded by, and dependent upon, some corporeal change. Questions as to the seat of this change. Supposed in general to take place in the Nervous System. a. By Darwin, to take place in the extremities of the Nerves. His reasons. Objections to them. b. By most other physiologists, in the Brain. Ex- amination of this hypothesis.
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