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Table of Contents
ARTICLE I.
ARTICLE II.
ARTICLE III.
ARTICLE IV.
ARTICLE V.
ARTICLE VI.
ARTICLE VII.
ARTICLE VIII.
Editorial, Etc.
Bibliographical.
Monthly Summary.
Footnotes
THE
AMERICAN JOURNAL
OF
DENTAL SCIENCE
Vol. xix. Third Series.—OCTOBER 1885. No. 6.
ARTICLE I.
NERVOUS ENERGY.
BY DR. E. PARSONS, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
[Read before the Georgia State Dental Society, May, 1885.]
Gentlemen—The subject I have chosen for your considerationat this, our Annual Meeting, is "Nervous Energy, how Actuated, and itsVaried Phenomena." No one can question the importance of knowing allthat can be known about it.
There is an invariable law by which means mind acts on matter, and itis my purpose, in this paper, to briefly elucidate what I have learnedby reading, observation and experience on the subject. The greatadvantage of meeting in council is an increase in knowledge on allsubjects in any way relating to our profession. We have many things yetto learn that will be, when known, of great benefit to both ourselvesand the public.
Science demands a full and free investigation of all or any causativeprinciple by which life is manifested, or death produced. So long as wedraw our conclusions only from appearances, we shall often be deceivedin a correct diagnosis; consequently often fail to cure diseases thatcome within the legitimate bounds of our specialty.
Proper remuneration for our services are absolutely necessary for therespectable maintainance of ourselves and those dependent on us; butour best men are laboring unweariedly in their endeavor to elevate ourstandard throughout the world, but particularly in our own country, andthis Society can do much to help them in their onward march, developingall possible improvements in Scientific Dentistry.
Again, we all have a full consciousness of three things—we love,we think, we act. But few have a scientific knowledge of the meansemployed by which mind acts on matter. There are such varied forms andcircumstances controlling its development, that we need not marvelat anything that comes within the sphere of our observation. As weare brought face to f