The physiology and pathology of the cerebellum / by William A. Hammond.
- William Alexander Hammond
- Date:
- 1869
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The physiology and pathology of the cerebellum / by William A. Hammond. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![togetlier removed, £»id life still remain for a long time. It might, therefore, be fairly supposed that these circumstances would have led to some definite results. So far, however, from this being the case, they have tended to increase the obscurity of the subject, for it is very certain that the functions of an organ, which can be mutilated or entirely ablated without the production of notable and uniform consequences, can- not be very pronounced in their character, even though indisj)ensable to the permanent well-being of the ani- mal. Before the time of Willis the functions of the cere- bellum were confounded with those of the cerebrum. This author is declared by Vulpian to be the founder of cerebellar physiology, but his works contain little more than fanciful hypotheses unsustained by facts. He regarded the cerebellum as presiding over the in- voluntary motions, as being the organ of music, and as a generator, by its cortical substance, of the animal spirits. Foville,' basihg his ideas on the anatomical arrange ment and the relations of the cerebellum to the spi- nal cord, reo-ards it as the centre of common sensation. This view is likewise entertained by Pinel, Grand- champ, and Duges. Experimental physiology and pathology do not, however, support the hy]3othesis, for it is found that injury, disease, or even complete removal of the organ in question, produces no nota- ble diminution of sensibility in any part of the body. Passing over several other theories which have been ' Trait6 Complet de rAuatomie, de la Physiologie, ct do la Patbologie du Syst&rao Nerveux. Paris, 184:4.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21479720_0006.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
