HUGHLINGS JACKSON'S VIEWS ON MENTATION

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Few physicians have analyzed the nature of mental processes as clearly as Hughlings Jackson. Modestly disclaiming any knowledge of psychiatry and lacking extensive clinical experience in mental disorders, Jackson inductively worked out certain general principles of mental functioning which are profoundly illuminating—principles, be it shamefully admitted, which the world of psychiatry has ignored and virtually forgotten. In the half century that has elapsed since his Croonian lectures, facts have accumulated which demonstrate the soundness of his inductions most brilliantly. My purpose in this and in succeeding papers is to present some of the more important of these facts and to show their significance in the light of Jackson's views.Three doctrines of Hughlings Jackson will be particularly considered. (These doctrines did not originate with Jackson, but it was he who most effectively demonstrated their medical importance.)First Doctrine.—The nervous system is, in essence, a series of sensorimotor reflex arcs,

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