The Human Brain, Its Configuration, Structure, Development, and PhysiologyLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1836 - 492 pages |
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Page 265 - Governor" of the world, in his inscrutable wisdom, to baffle our inquiries into the nature and proximate cause of that wonderful faculty of intellect — that image of his own essence which he has conferred upon us ; nay, the springs and wheelwork of animal and vegetable vitality are concealed from our view by an impenetrable veil, and the pride of philosophy is humbled by the spectacle of the physiologist bending in fruitless ardour over the dissection of the human brain, and peering in equally...
Page 335 - Mr. Cline ; and when he was first admitted into this hospital, I saw him lying on his back, breathing without any great difficulty, his pulse regular, his arms extended, and his fingers moving to and fro to the motion of his heart, so that you could count his pulse by this motion of his fingers. If he...
Page 32 - ... and who further demonstrated, not only that all these ganglions were collectively independent of the cerebro-spinal system, but that each ganglion was independent of every other ; nay, that each nerve proceeding from such a ganglion was in a great measure independent of that ganglion, and even that each point of such nerve was independent of all the rest, and constituted, per se, a distinct focus of nervous influence.
Page 335 - Cline ; and when he was first admitted into this hospital, I saw him lying on his back, breathing without any great difficulty; his pulse regular, his arms extended, and his fingers moving to and fro to the motion of his heart ; so that you could count his pulse by this motion of his fingers. If he wanted food, he had the power of moving his lips and tongue ; and this action of his mouth was the signal to his attendants for supplying this want.
Page xv - By pursuing this course we shall be rewarded by finding that the enkephalon, this apparently most complicated organ in the human being, is but a gradual development from an extremely simple fundamental type on one uniform and harmonious plan, and that the seeming complexity of the cerebro-spinal axis in man really arises from the great concentration, as opposed to the...
Page 334 - A man was pressed on board one of His Majesty's ships early in the late revolutionary war. While on board this vessel in the Mediterranean, he received a fall from the yardarm, and when he was picked up, he was found to be insensible.
Page 335 - I have a case which I think you would like to see. It is a man who has been insensible for many months ; he lies on his back with very few signs of life ; he breathes, indeed, has a pulse, and some motion in his fingers ; but in all other respects he is apparently deprived of all powers of mind, volition, or sensation.
Page 352 - At first small gray specks or elevated gray spots (glanders-nodules), varying in size from that of a pin's head to that of a pea, make their appearance (Fig.
Page 131 - III. The third type of syphilis is the spinal form. The symptoms in spinal syphilis are usually those of a transverse myelitis, involving, in the writer's experience, most often the lower part of the dorsal and upper part of the lumbar cord. This myelitis usually comes on rather slowly with the ordinary symptoms of a chronic or subacute transverse myelitis.
Page 334 - Hospital at that place, where he remained for some months, still insensible ; and some time after he was brought from Gibraltar on board the Dolphin frigate, to a depot for sailors at Deptford. While he was at, Deptford, the surgeon under whose care he was, was visited by Mr. Davy, who was then an apprentice at this hospital : the surgeon said to Mr.