Changes produced in the nervous system by civilization : considered according to the evidence of physiology and the philosophy of history / by Robert Verity.

  • Verity, Robert.
Date:
1839
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    CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Page Physiology and History,—^nature and extent of the subject. 1 CHAPTER II. Its application to the Principles of Medicine ... 5 CHAPTER III. Its connexion with the Philosophy of History,—History physiologically interpreted . . . . . 7 CHAPTER IV. Changes in the economy produced by Civilization transmitted hereditarily . . . . . . . .12 CHAPTER V. Parallel of man physical, with man historical and intellectual 14 CHAPTER VI. The physiological law of Civilization . . . .18 CHAPTER VII. Ancient civilizations deficient in certain mental elements,— their decline physiologically interpreted . . 20 CHAPTER VIII. The new elements of race and character brought by the Northern migrations ... ... 25 CHAPTER IX. Mixture of races favourable to high development of Civil- ization and pliysical type . . . . .28