Excerpt from The British and Foreign Medical Review, Vol. 8: Or Quarterly Journal of Practical Medicine and Surgery; July October, 1839 Art. X. - The Physiology or Mechanism of Blushing; illustrative of the Influence of mental Emotion on the capillary Circulation; with a general view of the Sympathies, and the organic relations of those Structures with which they seem to be connected. By troms H. Burgess, ILD. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.