Psycho-bio-physiology; consisting of applied psychology, biology as the cause of histology and anatomy and a description of the conduct of anatomic parts, which is physiology

Front matter

Books by Dr. Carver

PSYCHO- BIO-PHYSIOLOGY

Consisting of Applied

Preface to the Present Work

THIS is a compilation of parts of several books that I have furnished to the profession.

These books it seems to me have been gladly received and I would not do justice to their many readers, who have written me concerning them, if I did not believe that they have gratified a real desire, and been of value as tools of efficient service.

I think I have observed a growing need for a book — literary and scientific, instructive as well as entertaining, both for professional preparation and use, and for the use of the layman so so

Chiropractic principles need to be disseminated as carefully and fully, in certain ways, to growing children and society in general — as they do to the professional Chiropractor. This book is formulated to meet that need.

To the professional person it is a text book of incalculable value. To the non-professional person it is a mine of simple and exact truth that cannot be found in concrete form elsewhere so so

In the production of this book I have included, practically unchanged, "/Applied Psychology " published by me in 1914 and which was received with such enthusiastic approval, that it met with no criticism anywhere.

I have included here the complete Physiology deduced from the basic principle of Chiropractic, with certain corrections of spelling, punctuation, paragraphing and selection of words, as found in " Carver's Chiropractic Analysis," which I published in 1915.

Between the Psychology and the Physiology I have built the Biologic bridge that scientifically connects these two very important departments of human experience, using much that I have already published in my Preparatory "Outline for

Chiropractic Study," and adding thereto much that I have

not published before.

The Embryologic portion is sufficiently illustrated for study

purposes $+■ a«»

At the opening of each Physiologic department there is an

Anatomic Synopsis of the organs involved in the discussion,

with sufficient cuts of the same to render the discussion

perfectly clear and easily understood.

It is my earnest hope that this book will be as well received

as those that preceded it, and when it is, the author will be

repaid for this strenuous, though self-imposed, task.

WILLARD CARVER.

Dedication

"^^^^0 all that have patiently, per- € J sistently and honestly striven ^^^ to know truth and in their efforts for such acquisition have understood that in the Universe — all that is — is essential and necessary and that each attribute, organism, organ, segment, atom or thing has its place and relatio?iship in the great harmony — and to all that shall come in like spirit and recognition in the future — this book is most respectfully dedicated.

By the Author

Table of Contents

Lecture No. i.

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Part One Applied Psychology

A Series of Lectures

presenting an Analysis of

Psychology in a Simplified

Terminology; with Special Attention

to Biologic Phases of Physiology and

Demonstrating the Separateness

of the Entities Mind

and Soul

By Willard Carver, LL. B., D. C.

Preface to Psychology

IN the final and last consideration, there is but one important fact that presents itself to us, and that is our existence. The highest proof that we may have of this fact is only our consciousness of it. For if asked to prove our existence, we are in a more helpless condition than with respect to almost any other subject. We can make some show of tracing our ancestry; of following out the history of nations; of getting reasons for conditions ordinarily considered to be within the scope of science, but as to our individual existence, our highest proof is but our consciousness of it. The next most important fact is our knowledge of self. Pope has said that "The greatest study of mankind is man;" but I would say that the greatest study of mankind is to learn how to study himself.

Human beings generally conceive that they are learning about themselves when they are studying history and science, but really all they are doing, in such study, is getting farther from self, for after all, the study of history and the sciences furnish nothing of value as to self, for history always fades into tradition and tradition becomes lost in the night of time; and the so-called sciences when investigated with sufficient care and analysis resolve themselves into theories and the theories finally resolve themselves into the misty substance of phantasm and lose themselves in the vortex of dreams. The individual therefore that would study self; that would understand self , must confine his investigations to self. He must recognize the fact of his existence as paramount to all other facts and must bring himself to understand that all that he can know of self must be ascertained by means of introspection through the processes of deduction. He must come to understand that in the analysis of self lies his only field of research, except, solely immediate comparison with his fellows.

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The following lectures were delivered entirely from the standpoint herein disclosed and assumed to enter no other field. It was the highest object to show the complete separateness of Mind from Soul. The lectures present and sustain the proposition that the relation of Mind to Soul is the same as that sustained by the function of any organ to the Soul. That is to say, the production of Gastric Juice, from the walls of the Stomach, sustains the same relation to the Soul, that the production of Mind, in the Brain, sustains to the Soul. This preface is presented because it is the belief of the author that it is upon the points herein presented that writers on Psychology, as well as people generally, have gone astray, and he has therefore taken this opportunity to attract special attention to these thoughts in advance.

WILLARD CARVER.