A treatise on madness / By William Battie.

  • Battie, William, 1704-1776.
Date:
1758
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Credit: A treatise on madness / By William Battie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 9 ] is as capable of being ftill farther and farther divided beyond the reach of viiion, and even of human imagination. Thefe foft fibres are all connected with the contents of the cranium, and in different parts of the body they are colle&ed into fafciculi; every one of which is enveloped by a continua tion of thofe very membranes which within the cranium contain the fubftance of the brain and its medullary appendages. Every fuch fafciculus as well as the feveral fibres it is relolveable into is called Nerve: a name borrowed indeed from the ancients, but ufed by them in a very different fignification. For by nSfot and nervus neither the Greeks nor La tins meant any thing foft and medullary, but on the contrary the hard and elaftic fubftance of a tendon or ligament; as the word Ct 7 rOV 6 VpCOClS‘> ftill retained by the moderns to fignify the fafcia or membrane expanded over and connecting the mufcular fibres, fufficiently fhews. Every nerve, which is within the reach of our obfervation, is extended between the me dulla oblongata or its appendage the medulla fpi- nalis and the place of fuch nerve’s deftination. But every fuch nerve is thus extended in a man- C ner