New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-04
ORGANS OF THE MIND.
ADDRESS OF DR. HAMMOND BEFORE TILE
NEUROLOGICAL SOCI..TY.

ADDRESS OF DR. HAMMOND BEFORE TIE |
NEUROLOGICAL SOCI.TY.
IANITfsr NrIONs OF MIND FOLCE Aor CONFINED TO
IiE BRAIN-CJNNECTlON Cf THE MIND WIN
TIE NERVOUS systemic DEANS AID IN
TAILGzXCE OF ANNALS LXP IiMEN1s ON
CREATURES AFTER RfNO,iNG tnE HkhiNs-
REFLAx AND voLIrIoHAL NOV MESrs - 1ilE
SPINAL CORD A. A NEhvH CrNIER COMPARED
WITH TIIE BRAIN.
The Neurological Society held lis annual meeting
last evening at the College Of Physicians and sur
Coons at Ivy y-third-s. and fourih-aye. The
CHAIR was occupied by W. A. Hammond, NJ. d., Pres
ident of the association. There pesent large
audience. including DIS Clark. Dalton. Parsons
THE, pa,asloe Rockwell, Hamilton and Good"iiiir
and Professors Darbee and PA.lon. Before deliver
ing his inaugural address DT. Hammond read sanu
export of the proreDs Of che .ociety. AZ whlcA u"
stated that it contained T3 active members.
Ds GOodwillie and Hamilton were then elected
members II the Society. Then followed Dr. Ham
mond's address. When the paper WIS finished, Dr.
T. T.. Clark rose and begun the dis usalOu OF the
Views advanced by the President He slated lb1I
majority of naturaiiss held that mental caractoT-
istics were discovered in the animal Kingdom ioAs
before even the first If nervons System were
followed out In tho AmDba, for instance, ,he men
tai peculiarities could not be supposed 10 b. limited
Ia any particular part In the higher portions OF
the animal Kingdom the mind force seems to have MS
sesi in no one part of the organism. The same re-
marks apply 10 and the higher vertebrdtcs. d.
Clark did not approve of limiting The mind force u
the gray matter of the ccrebroSpnal sySieii Inc
nerve iibcrs and CDls Of tho sympathetic sy9ielu
greatly resemble tho fibJrs and cells OF Ia"
cerelro7spinal axis. The experiments described 40
not compel tho exclusion Of the mind from the
canglia Of tho sympathetic system. Dr. CLARK Chased
by saving: inlay it not he tIno of 1t apearH
to be of the lowest forms OF hif tinl TIE ihhn Pi
vadcs the whole bodyY'
Dr. Parsons then joiued in tho discussion. lie
said thai the souudaoss of Dr. Hammopd's views
rested On thu basis upon which the "a, Was writ-
ten. Tho whole discussion inrned. ho said. Oh the
definition of the word mind d. iaIeohs euti'
among other things DR.. Hammond claims that cor
tain acts beyond the range Of CONSCIOUSNESS are
termed yol;tional. Tins is o2nn 10 question. he
limbs by a conrse of training, become SO accustomed
to certain movements that TROY carry on those
movements without the aid Of The brain. As,
for instance in the ease of the frog. Il Is difficult
TO tell how often thu frog Had uIad, motions
which he made after being deprived ~ % bIaiu'
The higher cerebral cepters eGncale the eHtremItlt~
until they perform their functions naturally. In re-
oily Dr. Hammond said that without its brain the
frog acted the same it did before the brain was
temoyed 1t passed foot over the irritastd
spots aud not over any other place. That foot CIT
sI and the frog used another foot. What further
could it of IL usod every means 10 escape from the
Irritation and in doing did all that could be eX-
Sected from a decent frog.
Dr. Hammond's inaugural address OH - The Brain
sot tbf sole Organ Of tie Mind" is given herewfh