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An Inquiry into the Blood and Urine of the Insane

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

W. Johnson Smyth*
Affiliation:
Kent County Asylum, Barming Heath

Extract

The brain is, in man, the material substratum of mind. Professor Huxley teaches that mind is as much a function of matter as motion is. However this may be, certain it is that mental processes can be altered or even arrested by artificially altering the physical condition of the brain.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1890 

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