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Sir H. Holland Medical notes

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p. 70 Has known as the native patients whose fit brought on by seeing others under fit ─ [insertion: Epilepsy do ─ yawning do ─ (under Blushing)

analogous to yawning ─ (a person with [chorea] not being able to avoid touching object)

[insertion:] Proof that voluntary & reflex action are under the mind ─ When I discuss reflex action) influence by habit

p. 74 mental attention analogous to the mind attending & affecting different parts of body

p. 222 mentions the curiouscase of a person who thought he heard sentences & answered them. This sentence thus imagined had relation to his circumstance. ─ (a kind of double consciousness)

p. 228 in extreme old age life is spent between dreaming & waking

p 238 Pinel (see his book) has given cases, when same insane idea has continued for 20 & 30 years

p 314 Bichat Tom I. anatomie generale has written on habit, but has confined views on it

[insertion:] Sobbing Respiratory only partly voluntary

(Weeping)

p. 322 The voluntary muscles are chiefly subject morbid intermittent actions (S is not crying an exception: (those muscle which are subject to involuntary actions is eyelids & respiration are not subject to Palsy? or trembling Palsy)

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sobbing shows that crying comes under the intermittent class.—

Direct action

p 324 The organic movement ran first in order & more natural than the voluntary, which are superadded (Consider this) & again often lost by habit ( ⸮ placed in same condition is other involuntary movements)

Direct action (Q)

p 328 In the fidgets "there is accumulation of some cause, which requires muscular action for its relief" & what seems almost spasmodic (─ is not jawjawings first state, as lock jaw come? before tetanus?)

p 389 There is tendency in certain families to receive contagious diseases as small pox in its surest forms & to receive it a second time ─ thinks the immunity may possibly descend to whole races & this explains the greater degree of subjectness to them in some non-Europæan races ─ The measles strangely virulent to parts of Sandwich Isds!

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p. 441 Dreams are sometimes recollected afterwards Mr Langton has himself recognised cases of them.

p. 597 Dr. H. believes that muscular actions which become habitual through repetition approaches to the class of instinct ─ the instincts in vegetables becomes almost identical with existence. ─

599 ─ thinks only difference between man & animals the proportion of instinct with intelligence ─ memory most in common to this. ─ "determining by will the course or change of thoughts." this high prerogative he thinks probably peculiar to man. ─ does not an action which requires repeated trials show something like this ─ if savage could not obtain anything & turned away his head that we not say he was trying to [banish] thought does not

curious dog or dog with piece of food refused to do this. ─