Physiology, animal and mental : applied to the preservation and restoration of health of body, and power of mind / by O.S. Fowler.

  • Fowler, O. S. (Orson Squire), 1809-1887.
Date:
1849
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    GENERAL PREFACE To study single departments of man's complicated nature—as his anatomy, or physiology, or phrenology— separately, furnishes a partial and often erroneous view of it as a whole. To obtain anything like a complete knowledge of him requires that his constitution be stud- ied in its collective capacity. He must be known not by sections, but as a unit ; for in no other way can the reciprocal bearings and complex inter-relations of the multifarious laws of his being be understood. How useless, how imperfect a knowledge of anatomy, unless accompanied by that of both the physiology and the men- tality ! And the latter two without the former ! And the latter without both the others ! Nor should this sectional mode of study be longer tolerated. The unitarian aspect of man, and means of improving him, forms the ground-work of these volumes. How far they succeed the reader must decide. They probably constitute the first attempt to put side by side the laws of inter-relation existing between the body and mind. As our subject is naturally subdivided into three de- partments, it has been divided into three volumes—the first, devoted to the preservation and restoration of of health, the inter-relations of body and mind, and the improvement of the mentality by improving the physi-