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A Chapter on some Organic Laws of Personal and Ancestral Memory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

T. Laycock
T. Laycock*
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University of Edinburgh
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I propose to show that organic memory consists in cerebral processes, regulated by the laws of evolution and reversion, and common as vital processes to both plants and animals.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 21 , Issue 94 , July 1875 , pp. 155 - 187
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists 1875 

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