Herbert Spencer on the beginnings of Memory and Will, and on

the existence of "Organic Memory"

Sir William Hamilton on the relation between Memory and

Consciousness

Bain's criticism of the Hamiltonian view

Hering on "Memory as a General Function of Organised Matter"

• What is implied in Generation?

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CHAPTER II.

MEMORIES OF DEVELOPMENT IN CERTAIN PHYSIOLOGICAL

PROCESSES.

Periodical processes of the Mature Organism, as occasional re-

vivals of embryonic activity-Lactation, Corpus Luteum,

Placenta.

The Milk of the New-born

"The Functional Periods of the Mature Breast are successive

repetitions of its Development"

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ib.

The Corpus Luteum a temporary restitution of a long-past em-

bryonic deposit of cells

Parallelism between the Corpus Luteum and the Decidua

The Placenta a revival of embryonic structural and functional

characters

CHAPTER III.

REMINISCENCES OF EMBRYONIC ACTIVITY IN REPAIR AND

IN NEW GROWTHS.

Process of Repair a revival of the developmental powers of the

Embryo

Granulations a return to embryonic cell-life-Boll's Gefässkeim-

gewebe

The author's view of Pus as a modified product of the embryonic

Blood-making

Osteoblastic Memory in Bone-repair

Mesoblastic Tumours due to revived embryonic activity

ib.

Want of self-limitation in Tumours: revived embryonic activity

Dermoids of the Ovary the most complete illustrations of Meso-

blastic Memory

CHAPTER IV.

HABIT AS A CAUSE OF LONG-STANDING CATARRHS.

"The habit" in Medical Latin is Aristotelian for constitution

Habit here used in its English sense of use and wont.

How far Unconscious Memory depends on Nervous Mechanisms:
criticism of Hering's view

Catarrhs persisting by the force of habit

Catarrh as a return to a more primitive kind of cellular activity
Gonorrhoea becoming a Gleet illustrates habit

The old class of Alterative Remedies are Habit-breaking Drugs.
Modern lists of Alteratives (Brunton, Binz)..

Plummer's "Alterative Pill" first given for chronic Skin Dis-

eases, indolent Buboes, and for Gleet

General view of Alterative Cure in some chronic Catarrhs

Empirical use of Mercurials on a large scale

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Two indications: to remove the cause and to efface the memory

ib.

Action of Grey Powder in habitual Intestinal Catarrh of infants
Alteratives are Homœopathic "specifics"

CHAPTER V.

SKIN ERUPTIONS PERSISTING BY THE POWER OF MEMORY.

Plummer's Cases of inveterate Skin-disease cured by the altera-

Morbid habit on a basis of Nervous Mechanisms

Connexion of Skin Eruptions with the Cutaneous Nerves

A peculiarity of Skin Eruptions: to persist or recur as self-

existent things when the exciting cause is no longer there .

The approved remedies in long-standing Skin-diseases: Arsenic

and other alteratives

The Chronicity may be due to an equally persistent cause

Alteratives useless in such cases

Meaning of Arsenic being a "specific" in Skin-diseases

CHAPTER VI.

REFLEX ACTIONS CONTINUING AFTER THE CAUSE IS GONE

("STOMACH-COUGH," HABIT-COUGH, WHOOPING-COUGH).

'So-called "Stomach-cough" is a Memory-cough

Graves on unaccountable coughs

Whooping-cough "kept up by custom :" opinion of A. T.

Thomson and of Watson

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The whole paroxysmal stage of Whooping-cough is memory of

antecedent Catarrh remaining in the Reflex Mechanisms

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Cohnheim on Whooping-cough as an "infective cough" without

the intervention of Catarrh .

Catarrh in a child may be followed by paroxysmal fits of Cough

without Whooping .

Whooping-cough "spurious" if not caught from a pre-existing

case of the same

The author's view of what deserves most to be called "real"

and what "spurious'

Physiological reasons why the Post-catarrhal cough of infancy

should have the specific characters of Whooping cough

Whooping in adults a curious anachronism.

Why Paroxysmal Cough should follow Catarrh in Children more

regularly than in Adults

The inveteracy and other specific characters of Whooping-cough

explained according to the law of impressions stored up, or

of reflex liabilities postponed

Circumstances which favour such Post-catarrhal paroxysms

Pretended diagnosis between Whooping-cough and the Post-

catarrhal Cough of children's Influenza

The question of immunity after one attack

Treatment of Whooping-cough is alterative or Habit-breaking .

The cases in which the recurring paroxysms have an inevitable

CHAPTER VII.

AGUES AND NEURALGIAS AS MORBID HABITS.

Ague.

Curative action of Quinine or Arsenic in Ague variously ex-

plained according to the doctrine of Fever in fashion at the

time

Watson on Agues and other paroxysmal seizures continuing by

the Power of Habit

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Binz on the "Poison" of Ague, and the power of Quinine over

it

ib.

The assumption of a Poison in Ague goes against the rules of

philosophising

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