The morbid anatomy of the brain in mania and hydrophobia ; with the pathology of these two diseases as collected from the papers of the late Andrew Marshal; with an account of some experiments to ascertain whether the pericardium and ventricles of the brain contain water in a state of health / to which is prefixed a sketch of his life by S. Sawrey.

  • Marshal, Andrew, 1742-1813.
Date:
1815
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Credit: The morbid anatomy of the brain in mania and hydrophobia ; with the pathology of these two diseases as collected from the papers of the late Andrew Marshal; with an account of some experiments to ascertain whether the pericardium and ventricles of the brain contain water in a state of health / to which is prefixed a sketch of his life by S. Sawrey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    sarily connected with all intellectual powers., all internal senses, and all the passions. Memory depends on the brain ; a funda- mental power, in respect to other intellectual operations. We cannot, after living but a few weeks in the world, exposed to the con- tact of surrounding things, and to light re- flected from their surfaces, avoid recognising sensations, which turn cut to be mere repeti- tions of similar impressions, from the same forms of matter. We recognize the similar sensations, and feel in ourselves that formerly we were affected exactly in a similar manner by the impression on the organ of sense. This recognizing of sensations, and belief of their being repetitions, happens by the same physical necessity with which the first sensa- tions of the kind we ever had arose from their original and first impressions. We cannot but taste when sapid substances are applied to the tongue; nor can w.e pass by the con«