Theory of the human sensations / by Marmaduke Berdoe.

  • Berdoe, Marmaduke, 1743?-
Date:
1773
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Credit: Theory of the human sensations / by Marmaduke Berdoe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    forts, and continue them on through the whole intellinal canal. The brain in fuch cafe becomes as it were an intermediate center between the impulfe from external caufes and their actions on the interior firu&ure of the human body. For every nerve reaches to the common fenfory, from whence (when the brain is perfeft and unhurt) the impulfes of the different ex¬ ternal agents, are communicated to the diaphragm, and defcribe on that muf- cle, or the phrenic centers, the in- creafed aftion of the brain.—For it was aff rted in the beginning of this effay, that no one organ of the body, could either exert a greater degree of adiion, or be put in motion, without an apparent diminu¬ tion of the power of fome other connected part.