The animal spirit doctrine
Subtitle: a physiological odyssey
By: C.U.M. Smith ... [et al.].
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780199766499
Subjects: Guides (Spiritualism); Animals; Mind and body; Miscellanea
Description: This book examines the history of Western attempts to explain how messages might be sent from the sense organs to the brain and from the brain to the muscles. It focuses on a construct called animal spirit, which would permeate philosophy and guide physiology and medicine for over two millennia.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.