The intra-cranial circulation and its relation to the physiology of the brain / by James Cappie.

Date:
1890
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Credit: The intra-cranial circulation and its relation to the physiology of the brain / by James Cappie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    exhaustive explanation of some apparently simple phenomenon, such as the movement of the pen in writing these words, were to emulate the boldness of Mr Knickerbocker, and determine to begin at the beginning, he, too, would likely be obliged to make an arbitrary commencement. However far back in time his analysis or his imagination might carry him, he would at last be glad to take refuge in a dogma, and be obliged to build his synthesis on an assumption. He might, for example, very possibly make the assertion deliberately, without fear of contradiction, that the universe really was created, and that it is constituted by matter and energy. Like other dogmas this one draws on faith for some of its support; but if accepted as sound doctrine, one might then proceed by its aid to show how worlds have been fashioned and are still kept rolling in space, and how event has followed event in unbroken, far-reaching succession. Less venturesome than the illustrious his- torian of New York, however, I shall not attempt any such flight. Simply assuming that the postulate em- bodies important truth,—whether or not something more or less than the whole truth,—we may consider how it may be applied toward explaining events as we now find them occurring. As Mr Knickerbocker's land and water made one globe, so matter and energy constitute one Something with two aspects; or, if we are to consider it in relation