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Definition of Somatists
1. somatist [n] - See also: somatist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Somatists
Literary usage of Somatists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1908)
"It does not seem to me worth while to go in detail into the evidence by which
somatists strive to prove their point, because I do not know of any facts ..."
2. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1883)
"Dr Calderwood calls us somatists to avoid the sterner word materialists, but it
is not necessary to disclaim again the imputation that we regard brain as ..."
3. The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of (1853)
"... and the somatists have repudiated the interference of the mind, so that between
the two we see not what remains, except what Oken calls " the essence of ..."
4. A Treatise on Medical Jurisprudence by Francis Wharton, Moreton Stillé (1860)
"In opposition to the somatists, it was thought necessary to exclude all natural
causes from the explanation of the origin of mental affections, ..."
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