A treatise on the botanic theory and practice of medicine : compiled from various sources, with revisions and additions : to which is added a glossary / by A.N. Worthy.

  • Worthy, A. N. (Alfred N.)
Date:
1842
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Credit: A treatise on the botanic theory and practice of medicine : compiled from various sources, with revisions and additions : to which is added a glossary / by A.N. Worthy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1(1 attending the ipenence ii sen ;lll( d with tin ' the wonts 01 or to the functi ' lcus or sense ore olwoys inaction, am llu' centre ol rela- tion : il follows thot the destruction of the nerves ofasense involves tni gradual loss ofthe ideas to which th< to give origin. An acephalous fcetus ma) live: it dies as soon as il is born, becaus, ii then requiresthe influ espiration, which depends on the brain. Those organs which lose their communication with the brain, soon lose their vitality and their nutrition ; they wither and die. Tins stat< seldom occurs, because in palsies the sequela; of affections ol the brain, there is still a communication kepi up with this viscus. But as the pnnr cipal connection is through the medium of a diseased point, and the mini's by anastamoses with nervous cords rather inconsiderable, then influence is not able to maintain action in the organ to the requi degri hoi by the defec! of a peculiar principle of which the brain may be supposed to be the source, thai the moving apparatus when paralj withers; but from the want of excitement The wanl ofactionin paralysed muscles does nol proceed from the inaptitude of their unw.^ to excite motion, but from the absence of suffi- cient communication with the brain. After nutrition has been languid ime time in the paralysed part, its nerves deteriorate and are no longer capable ;» action. utrition in para pari -. ii with the brain, bul defici uders this nutrition more and more languishing, withoul always producing All ii: ow well known to be de- pendent on the organ of the 1 of the intellectual powers, ind motory. Though, from the close >n and syn therorgans with the ly the thora ra, such diver - often referred to several ofthe latter in - ,! i„ Fore anatomy had traced them sati the brain as their fountain- head. And of so high an antiquity is this erroneous hypo thai it has not only spread itself through ev< on the globe, but slid keeps a hold on the colloquial language of< and henci heart, the liver, the spleen, the reins, and the bow< among all nations, n so many ! of mental faculties or moral feeling. We trace this common and popular creed among the Hebrews and Arabians, the Egyptians and b and Romans: ai [] M ilized tribe; nor is there a dialect of the present day that is from it: and we have hence an incontrovertible proof that il existed as a doctrine i belief at a time when mankind, few in numl ed a common family, and were regulated by common notions The study ofanatomy.ho , |n