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Man and his relations: Illustrating the Influence of the Mind on the Body; the Relations of the ..

illustrating the influence of the mind on the body : the relations of the faculties to the organs, and to the elements, objects and phenomena of the external world

Also known as Man and his relations; Man and his relations, illustrating the influence of the mind on the body, the relations of the faculties to the organs, and to the elements, objects and phenomena of the external world

by Samuel Byron Brittan

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of California and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. 578 pages 22 cm 1. The Tenant and the house -- 2. Electro-physiological discoveries -- 3. Circulation of the animal fluids -- 4. Conditions of the vital harmony -- 5. Physical causes of vital derangement -- 6. Voluntary and involuntary faculties -- 7. Influence of the passions on the secretions -- 8. The Mind as a destructive agent -- 9. Renovating powers of the human mind -- 10. Mental and vital powers of resistance -- 11. Evils of excessive procreation -- 12. Mental electrotyping on vital surfaces -- 13. Influence of objects and ideas on mind and morals -- 14. Relations of mind to personal beauty -- 15. Relations of mind to the character of offspring -- 16. The Senses and their functions -- 17. Psychometric perception -- 18. Philosophy of fascination -- 19. Animal and human magnetism -- 20. Magnetism as a therpeutic agent -- 21. Importance of magnetism in surgery -- 22. The Phantom creation -- 23. Psychological hallucinations -- 24. Mental telegraphing -- 25. The Faculty of abstraction -- 26. The Philosophy of sleep -- 27. Psychological mysteries of sleep -- 28. Inspirations of the night -- 29. Somnabulism and somniloquism -- 30. The Clairvoyant vision -- 31. The Law of prophecy -- 32. Apparitions of the living -- 33. States resembling death -- 34. Philosophy of inspiration -- 35. Rationale of worship -- 36. Natural evidences of immortality

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics, Parapsychology and psychical research, Prophecy, oracles, and revelation, and Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling.

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  • Parapsychology and psychical research

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Parapsychology” and “Psychical research”. Retained metadata contains “Parapsychology” in the subject metadata and “Psychical research” in the subject metadata.

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  • Prophecy, oracles, and revelation

    Retained metadata contains “Prophecy” in the description.

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  • Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Metaphysics”.

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Man and his relations

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1875-01-01T00:00:00ZNew York : S.B. Brittan & SonEnglish—Public digitized item

Man and his relations: illustrating the influence of the mind on the body; the relations of the faculties to the organs, and to the elements, objects and phenomena of the external world

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1864-01-01T00:00:00ZNew York, W.A. TownsendEnglish—Public digitized item

Man and his relations

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1865Cotton W. Bean; New York : Cotton W. BeanEnglish—Public

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: New York Public Library
  • Contributing institution: Oxford University
  • Contributing institution: Robarts - University of Toronto
  • Contributing institution: U.S. National Library of Medicine
  • Contributing institution: University of California
  • Contributing institution: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Contributing institution: unknown library
  • Digitization sponsor: Google
  • Digitization sponsor: MSN
  • Digitization sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons, U.S. National Library of Medicine
  • Digitization sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Alternates
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  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: europeanlibraries
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: toronto
  • Open Library reports 3 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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