Idea of a new anatomy of the brain : submitted for the observations of his friends / by Sir Charles Bell.

  • Bell, Charles, Sir, 1774-1842.
Date:
1811
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Idea of a new anatomy of the brain : submitted for the observations of his friends / by Sir Charles Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

    12/38
    ( 1° ) a point touches the tongue, but I am fen- fible of a metallic tafte, and the fenfation pafles backward on the tongue. In the operation of couching the cataraft, the pain of piercing the retina with a needle is not fo great as that which proceeds from a grain of fand under the eyelid. And although the derangement of the ftomach fometimes marks the injury of an organ fo delicate, yet the pain is occalioned by piercing the outward coat, not by the afiredlion of the expanded nerve of vifion. If the fenfation of light were conveyed to us by the retina, the organ of vifion, in confequence of that organ being as much more fenfible than the furface of the body as the impreffion of light is more delicate than that preflure which gives us the fenfe of touch -t what would be the feelings of a man fubjedled to an operation in which a needle were pufhed through the nerve. Life could not bear fo great a pain. But there is an occurrence during this operation on the eye, which will diredt us to the truth : when the needle pierces the eye.