The people's common sense medical adviser in plain English, or, Medicine simplified . tack anyanimal. The head of the Fox is remarkable for its extremewidth at the region of Fear. He is proverbially ciafty andtreacherous, always excitable, and so variable in temper thathe can never be trusted. He is a very timid thief, exceedingly ? Certain ilisturbances of the bodily organs excite fear. The apprehension ofdanger, or simply mental excitement, does not explain what is called waterfright, stage fright, terror Excited by the raging of a storm, or the rocking of aboat. In such instances the heart
The people's common sense medical adviser in plain English, or, Medicine simplified . tack anyanimal. The head of the Fox is remarkable for its extremewidth at the region of Fear. He is proverbially ciafty andtreacherous, always excitable, and so variable in temper thathe can never be trusted. He is a very timid thief, exceedingly ? Certain ilisturbances of the bodily organs excite fear. The apprehension ofdanger, or simply mental excitement, does not explain what is called waterfright, stage fright, terror Excited by the raging of a storm, or the rocking of aboat. In such instances the heart may beat heavily, the respiration be irregular andattended by precordial oppression, giddiness, weakness and physical inability toarticidatc a word or recall a thought. These bodily conditions are not subject lo thecontrol of the will, but arise when individuals arc perfectly assured that no dangerthreatens. At other limes, as in a fearful tempest upon the sea, although the dangerbe imminent, if the bodily functions are not disturbed, there is not the leastmanifestation of ] 32 COMMON SENSE MEDICAl, ADVISER. suspicioths, irregular in habits, and frequently diiven by hungei into mischievous depredations. 169. The organ of alimentiveness,—located directly in front of the eai— indicates the functional conditionsof the stomach, which when aroused byexcessive hunger, exerts a debasing in-fluence upon this and all of the ad-jacent organs, and is demoralizingto both body and mind. In obe-dience to the instinct of hunger,children will slyly plunder gardens andorchards, displaying profligate, if not reckless tendencies in thegratification of the appetite. In this regional division we includethe medulla, the posterior and middle portions of which giverise to the pneumogastric nerve. This nerve receives branchesfrom the spinal accessory, facial, hypoglossal, and the anteriortrunks of the first and second cervical, and its filaments are dis-tributed to the lungs, stomach, liver,
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