An exposition of the symptoms, essential nature, and treatment of neuropathy, or nervousness / by James Manby Gully.

  • Gully, James Manby, 1808-1883.
Date:
1837
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Credit: An exposition of the symptoms, essential nature, and treatment of neuropathy, or nervousness / by James Manby Gully. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    ]20 of the brain’s thoughts. The whole evidence of the moral suffering is invariably some portion of the visceral nervous system—the moral suffering does not exist without such evidence ; and the de- gree of moral suffering is regulated by that of the visceral sensation. Whatever, therefore, may be the physical con- dition of the brain in congenitally nervous indivi- duals, — whether it be largely or diminutively developed, whether the nutrition going on in it be excessive or not, whether it be highly cultivated by education or not,'—it is certain that, receiving external impressions with more than ordinary viva- city, it is only made aware of this fact by the phenomena produced, subsequent to such impres- sions, in the visceral nervous system. This is the invariable fact, whereas the brain may be variously circumstanced, and the individual still be nervous. Whilst, therefore, it may be conceded as probable that a state of more than ordinary nutrition obtains in the cerebral centre of those persons denominated nervous, it must be granted that a high degree of development, or of nutrition of the visceral gan- glionic nervous system, is the essential requisite for the establishment of the characteristics they ex- hibit. This degree of development, or of nutrition, renders the viscera more accessible to the reverbe- rations that are continually being made from the brain upon their nervous tissue. The internal sen-