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Fear

Chapter 1: FEAR
By A. Mosso
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A scientific study analyzes the bodily and mental responses to fear, combining experimental observation and clinical examples to trace how brain activity, reflexes, and blood circulation change during emotion. It examines pallor and blushing, cardiac and respiratory alterations, trembling, facial expression and the physiognomy of pain, as well as phenomena in children, dreams, sudden terror, and illnesses produced by chronic fear, concluding with discussion of hereditary transmission and the role of education in modulating fearful reactions.

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Title: Fear

Author: A. Mosso

Translator: Federico Kiesow

E. Lough

Release date: July 11, 2019 [eBook #59901]

Language: English

Credits: Produced by Turgut Dincer, Christopher Wright and the
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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FEAR ***

FEAR

FEAR

BY

ANGELO MOSSO

TRANSLATED FROM THE FIFTH EDITION OF THE ITALIAN
BY
E. LOUGH AND F. KIESOW

AUTHORISED TRANSLATION

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

LONDON, NEW YORK, AND BOMBAY

1896

All rights reserved

TO

PROFESSOR ANGELO MOSSO

OF TURIN

from whom both have received many kindnesses of a personal character, and to whom one of us is indebted for furtherance in scientific research, we offer our sincerest thanks, with the assurance that we have looked upon the translation of this splendid little work, as the fulfilment of an agreeable duty.

E. L. and F. K.

August 1895

CONTENTS

CHAPTER   PAGE
  Introduction 1
I. How the Brain works 20
II. Reflex Action and the Functions of the Spinal Cord 32
III. The Brain 50
IV. The Circulation of the Blood in the Brain during Emotion 64
V. Pallor and Blushing 87
VI. The Beating of the Heart 102
VII. Respiration and Oppression 121
VIII. Trembling 134
IX. The Expression of the Face 155
X. The Expression of the Forehead and Eye 167
XI. The Physiognomy of Pain 185
XII. A Few Phenomena Characteristic of Fear 213
XIII. Fear in Children. Dreams 226
XIV. Fright and Terror 236
XV. Maladies Produced by Fear 249
XVI. Hereditary Transmission. Education 262