The physiology and pathology of the cerebellum / by William A. Hammond.

  • Hammond, William A. (William Alexander), 1828-1900.
Date:
1869
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    The noticeable features of tliese cases, besides tLe derangement of tlie sexual appetite, are the entire absence, in all, of any sjonptoins indicating a loss of the powder of coordination, and the presence of vertigo in the third case. (This, it will be recollected, was the only one in which either of the crura cerebelli were atfected.) It will be noted, also, that the hemii:)legia occurred upon the side of the body opposite to that of the disease in the cerebellum, Georget, whose works upon the brain and nervous system are so important, and who has so carefully stud- ied the manifestations of the mind in health and dis- ease, mites as follows relative to the point under con- sideration : Physicians have observed certain phenomena of the generative organs in cerebral affections. Thus, erection has been noticed by Bichat as a symptom of such disorders. It is not rare in ataxia [Georget does •not here refer to locomotor ataxia, as now recognized, but to an affection described by Pinel, characterized by loss of strength and general enfeeblement of- the power of sensation and motion]. M. Serres has seen it in two cases of disease of the cerebellum, of which one consisted of an extravasation of blood, and the other of an inflammation. It is well known that indi^dduals who are hung frequently exhibit this phenomenon, and that others have been so depraved as to cause them- selves to be suspended by the neck in order to procure the power of satisfying their venereal desii-es M. Gall placed the seat of 2:>hysical love in the cerebellum. Of all his other phrenological doctrines, this is the one in regard to ^vhich he has brougiit for- ^ De la Physiologic du Syst^me Nerveux et spdcialeraent du Cerveau, etc. Paris, 1821, vol. ii., p. 163. •