Note 209 — LECTURE XIV THE PHYSIOLOGICAL MANIFESTATIONS OF EMOTION
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Pathologie des Emotions, 1892.
The influence of emotion on the muscular system need hardly be more than referred to. Tremor, twitchings, particularly of the facial muscles, and other involuntary movements, as well as modifications of the tonus of the muscles, are common effects. All sorts of disturbances occur, ranging from increase of excitability to paralysis. Everyone knows that under the influence of powerful emotion, whether of joy, anger, or fear, there is discharged an increase of energy to the muscles, sometimes of an intensity which enables an individual to