The temple : concerning diseases of the brain and nerves; with full directions for their treatment and cure / by Andrew Jackson Davis.

  • Davis, Andrew Jackson, 1826-1910.
Date:
1871
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Credit: The temple : concerning diseases of the brain and nerves; with full directions for their treatment and cure / by Andrew Jackson Davis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    Spirit-principles and energies impregnate and saturate with interior life every particle, every organ, every libre, evei-y force, every ether, and every essence within or about the individual organization. Vital forces control the heart, lungs, stomach, blood, the organs of reproduction; also they preside over and govern the processes of assimilation, growth, and elim- ination ; and the cerebellum is their distinctive seat of government, and the medulla oblongata is their war office and general executive instrumentality. The soul-forces acting through the cerebellum, and by means of the vital nerve-centres of the spinal cord, can and do incessantly perform all the hard labor in the physical structure. The phenomena developed in weak- ness of mind, dementia, loss of memory, and intellectual unconsciousness—superinduced by epilepsy or any other immediate cause—are actually owing to the withdrawal of the true quantity of blood from the front and superior parts of the brain; and this is caused by a contraction in the minute feeding blood-vessels; and this is caused by an excitation of the nerve-centres at the base of the brain, and in the corpus callosuin ; and this is caused by some external or interior disturbance —not in the Spirit, remember—but in some centre or terminal part of those nerves which are filled with sensibility and motive-energy by those ethers and es-