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2. Mind has three properties,-Feeling, Volition, Thought
3. Elucidation of these properties
4. Classifications of Mind.-Understanding and Will; Intellectual
Powers and Active Powers; Brown's division; Hamilton's;
Dr. Sharpey's
5. Plan of the present volume
6. Statement of the fundamental law of Relativity
CHAPTER II.
THE NERVOUS SYSTEM.
1. Connexion of mental processes with bodily organs
2. Proofs that the Brain is the principal organ of Mind
Connexion of size of brain with mental energy
3. Parts of the NERVOUS SYSTEM
THE NERVOUS SUBSTANCE.
4. Nervous substance of two kinds, white and grey
Nerve fibres and nerve vesicles
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THE NERVOUS CENTRES.
5. Enumeration of parts of the Cerebro-spinal centre
Grey matter of the brain
8. Plan of Structure indicated by the arrangement of white and
grey substance
Note on the Sympathetic System
THE CEREBRO-SPINAL NERVES.
9. Nature of the ramifying nerve cords
FUNCTIONS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM.
Functions of the Nerves
10. Division into Spinal and Cerebral Nerves
Anterior and posterior roots of Spinal Nerves
11. The Function of a nerve is to transmit influence
12. Sentient and Motor roots of spinal nerves
14. Spinal Cord
Necessary to sensation and movement in the trunk and extremi-
ties of the body
Functions of the lesser grey centres of the Brain.
Rotatory movements caused by injuries of parts of the brain
19. Corpora Striata
CONTENTS.
Of the Nerve Force and the Course of Power in the Brain.
22. Nerve force is of the nature of a current
23. Experiments showing the community of nature between it and
electricity
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Waste of nerve fibre by the act of conduction
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Rate of propagation of the nerve-force
24. Nerve-force derived from the common source of natural power,
the Sun
25. Impropriety of looking on the Brain as a Sensorium
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A current action is involved in every exertion of the brain Immediate source of nerve force, the blood
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MOVEMENT, SENSE, AND INSTINCT.
Reasons for including Appetites and Instincts in the same department with the Senses
CHAPTER I.
SPONTANEOUS ACTIVITY AND THE FEELINGS OF
MOVEMENT.
1. Feelings connected with Movement, a distinct class
Their consideration to precede the Senses
6. Movements anterior to, and independent of, Sensation
Proofs that there are such movements
8. The Natural History of the Feelings, a part of the Science of
Mind. Method and order of description
9. Classification of Feelings of Movement
16. Movements gradually increasing or diminishing
17. Quick Movements
18. Feeling of loss of support
19. Passive movements
II. Perceptions grounded in the Muscular Feelings.
20. Discrimination of degrees and modes of muscular exertion
21. Consciousness of Exertion or expended force-sense of Resist-
ance, force, inertia ..
22. Examples of the feeling of resistance.
Momentum. Weight..
23. Consciousness of the Continuance of a muscular exertion. Esti-
mate of Time. Means of estimating Extension
24. Consciousness of the degree of Velocity of movements
Consciousness of the state of contraction of a muscle. Note
Sir W. Hamilton's distinction between the locomotive faculty
and the muscular sense. Note
CHAPTER II
OF SENSATION.
Sensations of the five Senses
Common or general sensibility
Propriety of constituting the feelings of Organic Life into a
class of sensations
Emotional and Intellectual Senses
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2. Organic pains of muscle,-cuts, lacerations, injuries of the
tissue; Bodily origin and manifestations
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3. Mental characters :-Acute pains in general typified, and
described
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4. Cramp or spasm, its physical nature and mental character-
istics
5. Over-fatigue, and ordinary fatigue
6. Sensibility of the Bones and Ligaments
Organic Sensations of Nerve.
7. Nervous pains. Their consideration complicated
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9. Feeling of the healthy and fresh condition of the nerve tissue.
Stimulants ..
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Organic Feelings of the Circulation and Nutrition.
10. Thirst; Starvation; pleasures of pure animal existence
12. Feelings of pure air; Freshness; feelings of Relief
13. Feelings of insufficient and impure air; Suffocation
Feelings of Heat and Cold
14. Physical effects of heat and cold. The sensation of Cold
15. Sensation of Heat
18. Summary of the Physiology of digestion
19. Alimentary Feelings: taking of food and healthy digestion
20. Hunger
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