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Illustrations of the Influence of the Mind upon the Body in Health and Disease, with especial reference to the Imagination

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Daniel H. Tuke*
Affiliation:
The York Retreat

Extract

Under the present section it remains to consider the influence of the emotions in inducing hydrophobia, tetanus, and catalepsy.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1871 

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So remarkable a case should, however, be received with caution, unless we may regard it as confirmed by similar cases.Google Scholar

Researches in Epilepsy. Boston, p. 56. For Van Deen's opinion on the insensibility of the spinal centres to any stimuli but the will or emotion, see “Year Book,” New Syd. Soc. for 1861.Google Scholar

Or the fitting word re-called—the “motor intuition,” Dr. Maudsley would say, associated with a certain idea organised in the motor centres of speech by education. See his able paper “Concerning Aphasia,” in this Journal, Jan., 1869.Google Scholar

Dr. Jackson informs me that he has not met with any evidence to prove that aphasia is ever due to psychical causes. While strongly holding that the emotions exert an influence over the nervous system, he is not convinced that they produoe local sypmtoms of any kind, hemiplegia, aphasia, &c.Google Scholar

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