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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A study of corporeal development which seeks to explain the relations and correspondences between the body and the brain, and to show the corresponding physiological and psychical powers in each.
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Examples
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The greatest triumphs of sarcognomy are yet to be realized in such climates.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 5 1856
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Nearly all the inhabitants of the torrid zone are subject to such influences in their habitual condition, and actually require no medicine, because their treatment by the hand of an enlightened anthropologist familiar with therapeutic sarcognomy will control all their diseases.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 5 1856
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The character of the life in the body is explained by physiology and sarcognomy.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, April 1887 Volume 1, Number 3 1856
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They not only know the truth of the science but recognize sarcognomy as "the most important addition ever made to physiological science by any individual," and their testimony was based on their own personal experience.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, March 1887 Volume 1, Number 2 1856
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Cerebral physiology and sarcognomy explain in detail how the brain and the mental conditions affect the body; cerebral psychology shows how the brain and soul are correlated.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, March 1887 Volume 1, Number 2 1856
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Aselli, Malpighi, Gall, Majendie, and Schwann, it is apparent that but one physiological discovery on record is sufficiently important in its nature and scope to be compared with sarcognomy, which comprehends the relations of soul, brain, and body.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, March 1887 Volume 1, Number 2 1856
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To the students of sarcognomy this is a familiar idea, but to others some explanation may be necessary.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, March 1887 Volume 1, Number 2 1856
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And yet, from certain interesting experiments in sarcognomy which have never been performed except by myself or my pupils, I am disposed to believe that the germinal process of man goes beyond the beginning of the animal kingdom, and that he retains in his constitution spiritual elements which might not improperly be called, not a photograph, but a psychograph of the entire animal kingdom, -- yea, of everything that lives, and even of the mineral elements that have no life.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 5 1856
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"Therapeutic Sarcognomy" -- the application of sarcognomy to medical practice -- was published in 1884, and the "Manual of
Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 Volume 1, Number 1 1856
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