Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...come now to the system which depends upon, yet rules, all others. Affections of the nervous system are now and have been for some time on the increase. If I were asked to name that part of the human organism upon which the health and strength of an individual most depends, I should unhesitatingly say the nervous system. The reflex actions are those produced by some cause exciting a nerve which has its termination in the spinal cord and which does not extend into the brain. Walking, called automatic, is one of the reflex actions. Did all nerves terminate...
Synopsis of Dr. Farnham's 16th lecture to-night is as follows: Importance of nervous system, reflex action, excentric projection, sensory and motor nerves, some affections of the nervous system...
...comparison of Titian and Rembrandt as colorists. 5. The employment of figure sculpture as an adjunct to architecture in Italy and France respectively. 6. Has Psychology profited to any appreciable extent by the discoveries made in the anatomy and physiology of the brain and the rest of the nervous system? 7. Discuss the two propositions: (a) "Had the ancients been serious in their belief, we should not have had their Gods exhibited in the manner we find them represented in the poets;" (b) "To deal with Greek religion honestly you must at once understand that this literal...
...obtain only a very brief respite. A fainting fit gives us an illustration of what happens when the action of the heart is much reduced in frequency, or brought to a pause. This condition is called Syncope. This state may be produced by any violent shock to the nervous system. A large proportion of diseases of the heart depend upon circumstances over which we have no control. In 177 cases of consumption, examined in the Brompton Consumptive Hospital, the heart was found smaller than it should be, in more than one half of the cases. As the heart not only...
...these trying times produce, who ought to be ostracised by their fellow men, and, as it were, withered in the bud. We mean the growlers, and those of coroner instincts who hold post-mortems over their examinations. The growler, unlike his bibulous namesake, is a cause of depression and nervous exhaustion wherever he goes. It is enough, in the agonies of a protracted grind, to feel your own ignorance and shortcomings without having some lugubrious acquaintance darkly accusing the faculty, the fates, and the well - others, for things for which his own misapplication of energies is responsible. He cannot claim...