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The changes which occasionally take place in the sensorium, as during the
exertions of volition, or the sensations of pleasure or pain, are termed sensorial
motions. - 2. The similarity of the texture of the brain to that of the pancreas, and
some ...
The changes which occasionally take place in the sensorium, as during the
exertions of volition, or the sensations of pleasure or pain, are termed sensorial
motions. - 2. The similarity of the texture of the brain to that of the pancreas, and
some ...
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The pleasure or pain which necessarily accompanies all those perceptions or
ideas which we attend to, either gradually subsides, or is succeeded by other
fibrous motions. In the latter case it is termed sootion, as explained in Sect. V. 2,
and VI ...
The pleasure or pain which necessarily accompanies all those perceptions or
ideas which we attend to, either gradually subsides, or is succeeded by other
fibrous motions. In the latter case it is termed sootion, as explained in Sect. V. 2,
and VI ...
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By the word simulus is not only meant the application of external bodies to our
organs of fense and muscular fibres, which excites into action the sensorial
power termedirritation; but also pleasure or pain, when they excite into action the
...
By the word simulus is not only meant the application of external bodies to our
organs of fense and muscular fibres, which excites into action the sensorial
power termedirritation; but also pleasure or pain, when they excite into action the
...
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Motions of the organs of sense onstitute ideas. I. Light from pressing the eye-ball,
and sound from the pulsation of the carotid artery. 2. Ideas in sleep mistaken for
perceptions. 3. Ideas of imagination produce pain and sickness like sensations.
Motions of the organs of sense onstitute ideas. I. Light from pressing the eye-ball,
and sound from the pulsation of the carotid artery. 2. Ideas in sleep mistaken for
perceptions. 3. Ideas of imagination produce pain and sickness like sensations.
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From whence also may be colle&ted the final cause of this degree of
transparency of the retina, viz. left by the focus of stronger lights, heat and pain
should have been produced in the retina, instead of that stimulus which excites it
into animal ...
From whence also may be colle&ted the final cause of this degree of
transparency of the retina, viz. left by the focus of stronger lights, heat and pain
should have been produced in the retina, instead of that stimulus which excites it
into animal ...
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| Title | Zoonomia; Or, The Laws of Organic Life ... Volume 1 of Zoonomia; Or, The Laws of Organic Life, Erasmus Darwin |
| Author | Erasmus Darwin |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | J. Johnson, 1801 |
| Length | 516 pages |
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