On apoplexy, including apoplexia hydrocephalica, or, water in the head : with an introductory account of the opinions of ancient and modern physiologists, respecting the nature and uses of the nervous system / by John Cooke.

  • Cooke, John, 1756-1838.
Date:
1820
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    Aristotle, is the organ first formed 5 it is that in which the life of animals resides, together with the faculties of perceiving and feeling, though some, he says, are of opinion that the powers of perceiving and feeling are in the brain. * Of the origin, nature, and distribution of the nerves, both Aris- totle and Plato seem to have been entirely ignorant. From the time of Hippocrates, Plato, and Aristotle, to that of Galen, who lived many centuries after them, we do not find, in the writings of the ancients, any account of the nervous system worthy of notice. Galen, who flourished about one hundred and fifty years after the Christian aera, was the most eminent physician, and the most voluminous writer of that age. His works probably contain every thing of importance then known in anatomy, physiology, and medicine. It has been very generally sup- posed that Galen borrowed much of his knowledge from Erasistratus and Hero- philus, two very eminent physicians, who * Aoxei ricriv aKr$uve<r$ciL to. Xjhct 8k* rov eyxeQuXov. De Jwvent. et Sencct. c. iii.-