The doctrine of specific nerve energies

MÜLLER, Johannes Peter.

Über die phantastischen Gesichtserscheinungen. Eine physiologische Untersuchung mit einer physiologischen Urkunde des Aristoteles über den Traum.

Koblenz: Hölscher, 1826.

1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Item #001889

8vo (201x129 mm). x, 117 [1] pp. Wrapper at spine only, title page somewhat finger soiled at margins, internally mildly browned and occasionally spotted. ----

Horblit 76; Garrison-Morton 1456; Hirsch-H. IV, 288; Waller 6733; Norman 1567; Heirs of Hippocrates 909. - FIRST EDITION. "Müller demonstrated, on the basis of self-observation and experimentation, that the visual system reacts not only to external optical stimuli but to internal stimuli caused by organic disorders or the workings of the imagination. He was thus able to provide a physiological explanation of such mysterious phenomena as religious visions or the sighting of ghosts" (Norman). Later he stated (1840) his law of specific nerve energies" (Garrison-M).

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