FEAR

“This work is an able contribution to the philosophy and physiology of expression, and follows the lines usually adopted by writers on this subject. The literary references and discussions of views of Herbert Spencer, C. Darwin, Mantegazza, and others, as well as the simple and popular style of writing, make the bool a readable and instructive volume. Speaking of the modes in which the brain performs its work, much stress is justly placed on its various vascular conditions, and the control of vascularity by external impressions. The effects of emotion on circulation and respiration are shown by pneumographic and pulse tracings, and the secondary effects of such physiological disturbance are traced.The author insists that it is the quantity rather than the quality of stimulus that has most effect in producing varied expression. He might have shown how many forms of expression really depend in their mechanism upon time and quantity in the order of discharge of nerve stimuli from the brain.Descriptions are given of the expression of fear in some brigands condemned to be shot as seen by the author. The phenomena of trembling are discussed at length, and the accompanying disturbance of heart and respiratory movements are ably dealt with.” — The British Medical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1863.