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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    muscles for a longer or shorter time after death. It is a principle formed in the brain and spinal marrow, he thinks, which, under the name of nervous power, and by the medium of the nerves, animates all the rest of the body, and presides over all the func- tions. The heart borrows all its power . from this principle, just as other parts bor- row from it the sensation and motion with which they are endowed, with this differ- ence, — that the heart borrows its power from all points of the spinal marrow; whereas other parts are only animated by that por- tion of the marrow from which they receive their nerves, a difference which serves to explain the intensity of the power of the heart, and its uninterrupted continuance, from the time of conception to the time of death. M. Le Gallois says, that the heart re- ceives its principal nervous threads from the grand sympathetic, and that it is solely by this nerve enabled to borrow its power from all points of the spinal marrow, the grand sympathetic having its roots in this marrow. All the questions, then, which have been agitated concerning the origin