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Pathetism

new theory of mind : statement of its philosophy and its discovery defended ...

Also known as Pathetism: man considered in respect to his form, life, sensation, soul, mind, spirit; Pathetism; with practical instructions. Demonstrating the falsity of the hitherto prevalent assumption in regard to ... "mesmerism" and "neurology," and illustrating those laws which induce somnambulism, second sight, sleep, dreaming, trance, and clairvoyance, with numerous facts tending to show the pathology of monomania, insanity, witchcraft, and various other mental or nervous phenomena

by La Roy Sunderland

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source

Also available in digital form.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis, Parapsychology and psychical research, Telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition, and Witchcraft and folk magic.

  • Retained metadata contains “Witchcraft” in the alternative title and “Witchcraft” in the edition subtitle.

    • Witchcraft· in alternative title
    • Witchcraft· in edition subtitle
  • Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Parapsychology”. Retained metadata contains “Parapsychology” in the subject metadata.

    • Parapsychology· via Internet Archive
    • Parapsychology· via Open Library
    • Parapsychology· in subject
  • Controlled discovery queries from library-of-congress matched “clairvoyance”. Retained metadata contains “Clairvoyance” in the alternative title, “Second sight” in the alternative title, “Clairvoyance” in the edition subtitle, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

    • clairvoyance· via Library of Congress
    • Clairvoyance· in alternative title
    • Second sight· in alternative title
    • Clairvoyance· in edition subtitle
    • Second sight· in edition subtitle
  • Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive, library-of-congress, openlibrary, and openlibrary-historical matched “Hypnotism”, “Mesmerism”, and “mesmerism”. Retained metadata contains “Mesmerism” in the alternative title, “Hypnotism” in the subject metadata, “Mesmerism” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

    • Mesmerism· via Internet Archive
    • mesmerism· via Library of Congress
    • Mesmerism· via Open Library
    • Hypnotism· via Open Library
    • Mesmerism· in alternative title
    • Hypnotism· in subject

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Editions

4 editions cataloged here.

man considered in respect to his form, life, sensation, soul, mind, spirit : giving the rationale of those laws which produce the mysteries, miseries, felicities, of human nature : psychology, phrenology, pneumatology, physiognomy, pathognomy, physiology : sleep, dreams, sonambulation, intuition, presentiments, prevision, enchantment, miracles, witchcraft, popular excitements, apparitions, spells, charms, fascination, trance, the case of Swedenborg, A.J. Davis, &c. : an essay toward a correct theory of mind, with directions for demonstrating its truthfulness

Internet Archive unrestricted pre-1900 PDF scan

1847-01-01T00:00:00ZBoston : White & PotterEnglishPublic digitized item

new theory of mind : statement of its philosophy and its discovery defended ...

Open Library record

1851Fowlers & Wells ...EnglishNo ebook

Pathetism: man considered in respect to his form, life, sensation, soul, mind, spirit

1847White & PotterEnglishPublic

Subjects

5 subject headings

Identifiers & provenance

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: The Library of Congress
  • Contributing institution: U.S. National Library of Medicine
  • Contributing institution: University of California Libraries
  • Digitization sponsor: MSN
  • Digitization sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons, U.S. National Library of Medicine
  • Digitization sponsor: The Library of Congress
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana
  • Open Library reports 2 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Scanner: scribe3.capitolhill.archive.org
  • Scanner: scribe9.rich.archive.org
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL45642250W
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