This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ...but this seems to me to be closely allied to reverie, or mere abstraction, where great determination of nervous power to some particular part of the cerebral substance, in deep thought or intense emotion, shall leave other portions unsupplied or deprived for a moment. This loss of the capacity of retaining impressions, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ...but this seems to me to be closely allied to reverie, or mere abstraction, where great determination of nervous power to some particular part of the cerebral substance, in deep thought or intense emotion, shall leave other portions unsupplied or deprived for a moment. This loss of the capacity of retaining impressions, the common form of amnesia, is remarkable generally in the aged. They recollect what happened long ago; they retrace the events of childhood; but the acts and sufferings of yesterday pass away entirely from their minds. This may be the result, and I doubt not often is, of dullness and unimpressibility of the senses, which receive impulses imperfectly, and of course they leave no vestige. A curious case is related by Ware, in which the same condition occurred as produced by, or following, prolonged sea-sickness. The subject suffered "a total loss of memory of recent events"--probably of one or two years back; "while he would converse with entire correctness and recollection on all subjects connected with the events and pursuits of the earlier periods of his life. He was unhappily conscious of the state of mind into which he had fallen." Prof. Jackson has given a history of a transient amnesia, in which, without any paralysis of the tongue, the recollection of words was so totally lost that the subject, thinking freely and accurately, in vain attempted to ex r press or write his thoughts. Vascular pressure on the brain being relieved by venesection, the faculty was restored. I met with, and published an account of a somewhat similar case in 1830. My patient was more permanently affected, remaining a long while absolutely incapable of finding certain words. These he could generally read, but not always. He remained perfectly ...
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Very Good. 12mo. 301 pp. + 24 pp. ads. Original embossed brown cloth. 1/4" chip top of spine, top large corner of front free endpaper and half of next leaf excised, light scattered text foxing, else tight, very good minus.
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Presumed first edition (no additional printings listed, but copyright 1851). Brown blindstamped decorative cloth, stamped gilt lettering, approximately 5 1/4 x 8 inches, 301 pp + 24 pp publisher's catalogue for August, 1851, no illustrations. Hardcover, good to very good. Corners bumped, approximately 1/4 inch fraying at head and foot of spine, brown ink drop marks on front board and spine, more pronounced on rear board, with an approximately 1/2 wide streak of it running down the length, 3 inch such drop mark on top edge of textblock, which has bled inwards 1/4 to 1/2 inch deep, text unaffected, except for last half dozen or so leaves, where it runs approximately 1 inch deep and has covered a bit of the publisher's catalogue; previous owner's signature (in pencil) on paste-down front endpaper, foxing on first and last several leaves, and less so throughout, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked; probably just skimmed, but never really read. Also includes essays on death, intellection and hygiene, all written for the educated lay person, with numerous citations and anecdotes drawn from the medical and scientific literature of the times and prior, considering such things at the use of chloroform, ether and nitrous oxide as anesthesia, spontaneous generation, somnabulism, mental illness, sanitation, diet, various experiments, etc. Author was a prominent physician of his day, a founder of the Medical College of South Carolina, teacher of Elizabeth Blackwell, and luminary of the Charleston intellectual circles. Medicine; science; physiology.
