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.

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    produced by the action of things external to roufe our faculties : But that once brought into aCtivity, the organs can be put in exercife by the mind, and be made to minifter to the memory and imagination, and all the faculties of the foul. I fhall hereafter {hew, that the operations, of the mind are feated in the great mafs of the cerebrum, while the parts of the brain to which the nerves of fenfe tend, ftriCtly form the feat of the fenfation, being the in- ternal organs of fenfe. Thefe organs are operated upon in two directions. They re- ceive the impreflion from without, as from the eye and ear : and as their aCtion influ- ences the operations of the brain producing perception, fo are they brought into aCtion and fuffer changes fimilar to that which they experience from external preflure by the operation of the will; or, as I am now treat- ing of the fubjeCt anatomically by the ope- ration of the great mafs of the brain upon them.