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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    I. ' . •' $ 40 THEORY of the \ Can we poffibly account for thefe un¬ common phenomena by any other caufe, than the reciprocal aftions be¬ tween the brain and diaphragm? In the firft cafe the diaphragm is unhurt and performs its accuftomed functions, but the brain being incapable of aiding, the reminifcence of ideas are but flightly traced out, and penetrate no farther than the limits of its own fphere of afti- on.—The brain in the fecond cafe feems to polfefs its own degree of action, and receives the impulfe of external objefts on the common fenfory; but the dia¬ phragm being opprefled, (as it certainly is in malignant fevers and the con- fumption) is incapable of confirming the ideas of the brain. For in thofe perfons where the reafonable faculties feem perfect, it muft appear errone- ous to aflert that there can be any vici¬ ous defeft in the brain, that is capable