Principles of mental physiology : with their applications to the training of the mind, and the study of its morbid conditions / by William B. Carpenter.

  • Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885.
Date:
1876
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Credit: Principles of mental physiology : with their applications to the training of the mind, and the study of its morbid conditions / by William B. Carpenter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INDEX. ♦ Abercrombie, Dr., cited from, on reproduction of sensorial states, 112; on spectral illusions, 166; on memory, 430, 438, 439, 443, 451, 452 ; on dreaming, 587; on somnambulism, 593, 600 Abstraction, state of, 544-548 Acquired Habits, 213-217; mainte- nance of, 218, 345-351 ; heredi- tary transmission of, 90,104, 371- 374; (see Habit) Acquired Intuition of common sense, 473 Acquired Perceptions, 181-204 ; (see Perceptions) Actors, memory of, 452 /Esthetic Sense, 210 ; improvement of in race, 513, 514 Afferent nerve-fibres, 37, 38, 62, 63 Age, influence of, on psychical ten- dencies, 365—366 Alcoholic intoxication, 649-653 Alcoholism, 650, hereditary transmis- sion of, 369, 370 Amanita, intoxication by, 642 Amoeba, 41, 42 Amphioxus, nervous system of, 65 Anaesthesia, 152 Animal Life, apparatus of, 29, 31 Anthropomorphism, 701, 702 Aphasia, 446-448, 721 Apparent Death of Hindoo devotees, 552 note Apparitions, 209 Appold, Air., his mode of invention, 535 Arabs of Sahara, scent of, 141 Aristotelian dogmas, 409 Arithmetic, science of, 231 Armstrong, Rev. G., and Blanco White, 402 Arnold, Dr., influence of, 358 Articulated animals, nervous system of, 50-61 Artistic Power, hereditary, 373, 374 Artistic Representation, mental action in, 222, 259, 260 Ascending fibres of Cerebrum, 99, 100 Ascidian Mollusk, nervous system of, 45-47 Assent, automatic nature of, 395 Assimilating process, in memory, 449 Association, laws of, 251-259; con- structive, 259, 260; dropping- out of links of, 527-529; (see Suggestion) Associations, early, strength of, 344 Atkinson, Mr., his philosophy, 4 Attention, state of, 25, 130-132; phy- sical condition in, 382-384; either volitional or automatic, 132—138; training of, 133, 136 Automatic, 132; in children. 133-135; contrasted with vo- litional, 138 Expectant, influence of, on pro- duction of movements, 283- 392 ; on organic actions 682- 690 Volitional, 3SG-391; contrasted with automatic, 132-136 ; exercise of, in sensation, 137-147 ; in perception, 182, 183, 204-206; in succession of thought, 251, 262-264 ; in control over emotions, 330-336; in formation of be- liefs, 399-403 ; in determina- tion of conduct, 414, 420, 3 a 2