A treatise on nervous diseases : in which are introduced some observations on the structure and functions of the nervous system; and such an investigation of the symptoms and causes of these diseases as may lead to a rational and successful method of cure / by Sayer Walker, M. D. of the Royal College of Physicians, London: physician in ordinary to the city of London Lying-in-Hospital; and one of the physicians to the City Dispensary.

  • Walker, Sayer, 1748-1826.
Date:
1796
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Credit: A treatise on nervous diseases : in which are introduced some observations on the structure and functions of the nervous system; and such an investigation of the symptoms and causes of these diseases as may lead to a rational and successful method of cure / by Sayer Walker, M. D. of the Royal College of Physicians, London: physician in ordinary to the city of London Lying-in-Hospital; and one of the physicians to the City Dispensary. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    As a farther fupport to this reafoning, it fhould be remembered, that in forae infants, where hardly any brain could be difcovered, the fpinal marrow and nerves have been nearly, if not quite, as perfed: as in other inftances, where the brain has been complete. Dr. Baillie, in his Morbid Anatomy,* obferves, that The brain is fubje<5l: to great variety from original monftrous . formation. A great part of what is ufually called the cerebrum is fometimes ** wanting, while the cerebellum and the medulla fpinalis are entire; fometimes there is hardly any veftige of either the *' cerebrum or cerebellum, and the me- dulla fpinalis is very much dirainifhed ir> fize; at other times there is a total * Page 313.