Encephalology; or, A very brief sketch of dr. Hirnschädel's ologies of the cranion and phren perfected by the rationals |
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... appeared so necessary , since nature had supplied it so liberally in all other instances , was a source of considerable distress to his pa- rents , and especially to his mother ; not only because she viewed it as the loss of a great ...
... appeared so necessary , since nature had supplied it so liberally in all other instances , was a source of considerable distress to his pa- rents , and especially to his mother ; not only because she viewed it as the loss of a great ...
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... appeared to be such to him , he attentively noticed ; at the same time searching for the corresponding peculia- rities on his own cranion . Whilst exercised in these investiga- tions , and contemplating his head in the looking - glass ...
... appeared to be such to him , he attentively noticed ; at the same time searching for the corresponding peculia- rities on his own cranion . Whilst exercised in these investiga- tions , and contemplating his head in the looking - glass ...
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... his own person , and the more so from his habit of continually contemplating it in a looking - glass , he was perfectly in- sensible to the singular appearance of a boy , only nine years old , with the bald- 32 ENCEPHALOLOGY .
... his own person , and the more so from his habit of continually contemplating it in a looking - glass , he was perfectly in- sensible to the singular appearance of a boy , only nine years old , with the bald- 32 ENCEPHALOLOGY .
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... appeared to him an oracular notifi- cation ; that proportionate compressure must necessarily , and in a similar man- ner , frustrate the efforts of the function- ary , and cause it , in a similar manner , to dwindle and die away . But ...
... appeared to him an oracular notifi- cation ; that proportionate compressure must necessarily , and in a similar man- ner , frustrate the efforts of the function- ary , and cause it , in a similar manner , to dwindle and die away . But ...
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... appeared to give promise of future , though with- out any actual development , were the orgg . ite - ratio , ponde - ratio , vigo - ratio , and vene - ratio . If he was ordered to do any thing for a particular occasion , he would ...
... appeared to give promise of future , though with- out any actual development , were the orgg . ite - ratio , ponde - ratio , vigo - ratio , and vene - ratio . If he was ordered to do any thing for a particular occasion , he would ...
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Page 140 - A strange fish ! Were I in England now, (as once I was,) and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver : there would this monster make a man ; any strange beast there makes a man...
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Page 61 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or wak'd to ecstasy the living lyre.
Page 104 - ... induction are the following : 1st, That the brain is the material instrument, by means of which the mind carries on intercourse with the external world. 2d, That the brain is an aggregate of parts, each of which has a special and determinate function. 3d, That the form of the brain can be ascertained by inspecting the cranium ; and that the functions of the several parts may be determined by comparing their size with the power of manifesting the mental Faculties.