The morbid anatomy of the brain, in mania and hydrophobia : with the pathology of these two diseases, as collected from the papers of the late Andrew Marshal ... : with an account of some experiments, to ascertain whether the pericardium and ventricles of the brain contain water in a state of health / to which is prefixed a sketch of his life by S. Sawrey.

Date:
1815
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Credit: The morbid anatomy of the brain, in mania and hydrophobia : with the pathology of these two diseases, as collected from the papers of the late Andrew Marshal ... : with an account of some experiments, to ascertain whether the pericardium and ventricles of the brain contain water in a state of health / to which is prefixed a sketch of his life by S. Sawrey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    chronous—SO it cannot be said that the brain first wills, and then transmits the impulse. Again, as muscles reckoned voluntary act sometimes without volition, and without con-' sciousness, so they sometimes go into violent action, in spite of volition. In tetanus, and other spasmodic diseases, the patient retain- ing all his senses and reason, wills most hearti- ly, the relaxation and usual measure of action of certain muscles; but volition is in vain. In such cases the contractility so excessive, cannot proceed from cerebral energy; other- wise two opposite powers would at the very same instant concur in the brain, a power of giving contraction, and a power of with- drawing the contractile energ}^; which is not less absurd than to say that when we will an end at that very instant we reject it. According to the experiments of Haller,