The anatomy of the brain. Containing its mechanism and physiology; together with some new discoveries and corrections of ancient and modern authors upon that subject to which is annex'd a particular account of animal functions and muscular motion ... / [Humphrey Ridley].

  • Ridley, Humphrey, 1653-1708
Date:
1695
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Credit: The anatomy of the brain. Containing its mechanism and physiology; together with some new discoveries and corrections of ancient and modern authors upon that subject to which is annex'd a particular account of animal functions and muscular motion ... / [Humphrey Ridley]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fuch a one as the latter found there and drew out with his Fingers 5 and that which feems to put out of all Controverfie that it was fo, is, that in thole places, both above towards the Corpus Caliofum, and below on the Bafis ot the Ventricle, he found feme fort of Afperities as though the Blad¬ der fill’d with Water had been cove¬ red with lome fmall Protuberances not much unlike to White Poppy- feed, in thofe places where it was contiguous to them ; which Protu¬ berances doubtlds were the fmall .Glands interfperfed quite through this Plexus. How this Diltemper came to be on one fide only, though fometimes it is on both, as you may fee in ano¬ ther place of the aforefaid Tulpius, may likely enough be from an Ad- P-«* nafcency of both the Lamina's of this Sr. % Membranous Production, in that place where the Septum Lucidum finks down from the Fornix, occa- fion’d by feme fmall fort of preflure of the fuperincumbent Brain. Be- fides thele Veins, which are very truly defcrib'd by Willu, I have al¬ ways found, two more meeting the