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
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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.

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    eye, the patient has the fenfation of a fpark of fire before the eye. This fadl is corroborated by experiments made on the eye. When the eye-ball is preffed on the fide, we perceive various co- loured light. Indeed the mere effedt of a blow on the head might inform us, that fenfation depends on the exercife of the organ affedled, not on the impreffion con- veyed to the external organ ; for by the vibra- tion caufed by the blow, the ears ring, and the. eye flafhes light, while there is neither light nor found prefent. It may be faid, that there is here no proof of the fenfation being in the brain more than in the external organ of fenfe. But when the nerve of a flump is touched, the pain is as if in t;he amputated extremity. If it be Hill faid that this is no proper example of a pe- culiar fenfe exifting without its external or- gan, I offer the following example : Quando penis glandem exedat ulcus, et nihil nifi granulatio maneat, ad extremam tamen nervi pudicae partem ubi terminatur fenfus A 6 fuper-