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action activity actual adjustment alienist alteration amount arise become blood bodily body brain channels character circulation circumstances climacteric cœnæsthesis colour complete condition conduct consciousness conspicuous constitution corresponds course defect degree delusion dementia diminished diminution direct discharge disorder of mind drunkenness effect elements emotion environment epilepsy excessive existence fail failure feeling fever fibre forms of insanity function grey matter ground substance Hence we find higher highest centres highest nerve regions highest regions impetus impressions inbreeding increase indirect stresses individual influence intensity less lower malady male mania manifestations marriage melancholia ment mental accompaniment moiety molecules movements muscles nature nerve centres nerve currents nerve energy nervous process nervous system normal nutrition occur ocellus offspring organism ovum parents patient person produce proportion puberty qualities relation reproductive seen sexual sleep structure sudden suffer suicide surroundings symptoms takes place tendency tension thought tion tissue vigour visceral vivid whole
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Page 61 - Not that all this time his mind was for an instant free from one oppressive overwhelming sense of the grave that opened at his feet ; it was ever present to him, but in a vague and general way, and he could not fix his thoughts upon it. Thus, even while he trembled and turned, burning hot at the idea of speedy death, he fell to counting the iron spikes before him, and wondering how the head of one had been broken off, and whether they would mend it or leave it as it was.
Page 98 - ... a disorder of emotion such that, while appreciating the nature and quality of the act, and that it was wrong, he did not possess sufficient power to prevent himself from committing it.
Page 203 - Let us look to the great principle of gradation, and see whether Nature does not reveal to us her method of work. At one end of a short series we have humble-bees, which use their old cocoons to hold honey, sometimes adding to them short tubes of wax, and likewise making separate and very irregular rounded cells of wax. At the other end of the series we have the cells of the hivebee, placed in a double layer...