Sensation, then, is the phenomenon which is produced and which one experiences when an excitant has just acted on one of our organs of sense.
If the excitant which provokes it is included in our nervous system, it is the sensation which becomes individual, hidden to all except ourselves, and constituting a microcosm by the side of a macrocosm.
The impression on which the act of cognition operates, that impression which is directly produced by the excitant of the nervous system, seems to me, without any doubt, to be of an entirely physical nature.
Similarly, I suppose that if the nervous vibration resembles so little the excitant which gives it birth, it is because the factor nervous system adds its effect to the factor external object.
It is observed that, if the sensory nerves are agitated by an excitant which remains constant, the sensations received by the patient differ according to the nerve affected.
The image results from a partial cerebral excitement, which sensation results from an excitement which also acts upon the peripheral sensory nerves, and corresponds to an external object--an excitant which the image does not possess.
To sum up, in addition to the natural excitant of our sensory nerves, there are two which can produce the same sensory effects, that is to say, the mechanical and the electrical excitants.
These talks were a delicious excitant to Roland’s vanity.
In a way, too, it was an excitant to his vanity, a tribute to his manhood, to his superior knowledge of the world.
To this vicarious excitant their intimacy indeed owed its strength.
Catastrophe becomes also the excitant for an unparalleled opening of the springs of generosity.
The energizing influence of an emotional excitant was shown at Halifax in the remarkable way in which sick soldiers abandoned their beds and turned them over to the victims rushed to the military hospitals.
As an excitant emetic; in cases of poisoning by narcotics, &c.
This drug is chiefly known as a violent excitant of the cerebro-spinal system.
Even after making due allowance for the effects of the imagination, it is certain that odors act as an excitant on the brain, which may be dangerous when long continued.
The reaction from this unnatural excitant is correspondingly depressing; and the melancholy, the "overwhelming horror" that ensues, calls for a renewal of the stimulus.
The influence of dreams as an excitant of muscular movement will be hereafter discussed.
Meat juice, therefore, occupies an important place as an excitant of those functions which must be aroused in order to secure the proper digestion of other articles of food.
Local refrigeration of any portion of the body thus acts as a painful excitant of the cerebrum, and produces wakefulness, very much as distention of the intestines with gas will keep one awake.
These talks were a delicious excitant to Roland's vanity.
The Sulphate of Zinc' is valuable as an excitant to wounds, and promotes adhesion between divided surfaces and the 'radix'.
A dilute solution may be employed as an excitant to wounds, in which the healing process has become sluggish.
It may be employed as a very gentleexcitant and antiseptic.
The generic name is from {hippos} and {mania}, and was first used by the Greeks to distinguish some plant with properties excitant to horses.
Sambucus possesses cathartic and emetic properties in the bark; the flowers are excitant and sudorific, and the juice of the fruit is alterative and laxative.
As our emotions are constantly operating during the day--and often enough during sleep as well in connection with dreams--we must presume that emotional stimulus is a normal excitant for the production of adrenalin.
It is therefore inconceivable that the blood could receive its normal supply of adrenalin with an apathy of the degree seen in stupor unless some purely hypothetically substitutive excitant were found.
The action of ergot of rye (secale cornutum) upon the womb is well known as an excitant to powerful action, which usually terminates in the expulsion of the foetus.
Ergot of rye not a good uterine excitantto the bitch, 365.
While some light-colored oats certainly have considerable excitant power, some dark oats have little.
Experiments have been recently made by Mr. Sanson with a view to settling the question whether oats have or have not the excitant property that has been attributed to them.
Crushing or grinding the grain weakens considerably the excitant property, probably by altering the substance to which it is due; the excitant action is more prompt, but much less strong and durable.
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