Brain and mind; or, Mental science considered in accordance withthe principles of phrenology, and in relation to modern physiology . or three times a month with special attacks of hunger,during which she devoured twenty-four pounds of one day in the kitchen of a rich family whena dinner party was expected, she devoured, in a very fewminutes, the soup intended for twenty guests, along withtwelve pounds of bread. On another occasion she drankall the coffee prepared for seventy-five of her companionsat the Salpetriere. Other cases of voracity are given, whichwere accompanied with
Brain and mind; or, Mental science considered in accordance withthe principles of phrenology, and in relation to modern physiology . or three times a month with special attacks of hunger,during which she devoured twenty-four pounds of one day in the kitchen of a rich family whena dinner party was expected, she devoured, in a very fewminutes, the soup intended for twenty guests, along withtwelve pounds of bread. On another occasion she drankall the coffee prepared for seventy-five of her companionsat the Salpetriere. Other cases of voracity are given, whichwere accompanied with pain or heat in the locality of Ali- 72 BRAIN AND MIND. mentiveness, and where the organ was found diseased afterdeath. VITATIVENESS occupies a position behind the ear, nearly correspondingwith Alimentiveness, which is in front of it. Anatomi-cally, the organ is situated in the part of the brain adjacentto the mastoid process of the temporal bone. (See Fig. 17,space E). It is the function of this organ to manifest alove of existence for its own sake, irrespective of the ad-vantages or disadvantages which attend it; and by the. Fig. 21—VlTATIVENESS SmALL. Strong desire to live which it gives, it often furnishes apowerful aid in resisting the encroachment of disease,weariness, and suffering. That there is a great difference among men in regard tothe strength of the desire for existence is a matter of com-mon observation. Some love life so earnestly that theylook upon death as the greatest evil which can befallthem, and tenaciously cling to life even when they havelittle to hope from its continuance but unhappiness andpain. Others, again, are unable to appreciate this intense PRESERVATIVE OR SELFISH ORGANS. 73 love of existence; they look upon pain and the partingfrom friends as the only evils attendant upon death. Theseopposite characteristics appear in men of the most differentcharacters in other respects. The religious, who lookupon death as the vestibule to a life of unendin
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