Excerpt from The Pathology of Emotions: Physiological and Clinical Studies<br><br>Life, in the normal condition, as in the abnormal, is alway subordinated to the conditions of an order purely physical and we can say, (says Claud Bernard),i that every malady is, at bottom, an alteration or a modification, more or less, Of a physical condition, which is endeavouring to return to the normal condition The phenomena, the most sublime, Of life do not escape this law; the mental manifestations Obey the common rule.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.