The principles of physiology by John Augustus Unzer; and A dissertation on the functions of the nervous system, by George Prochaska.

  • Unzer, Johann August, 1727-1799.
Date:
1851
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    INDEX PROCHASKA ON TPIE NERVOUS SYSTEM. [N.B.—The figures in this Index refer to the pages.] Albinus shows the cortex of the brain not altogether vascular, 377, 389 Anatomy of the nervous system — its bibliography, 383 note. Animal functions, see Functions. Animalcules shown by Spallanzani to be true animals, 386; how feel and move, 387 Arabs, the, located the animal functions in the ventricles, 369 Aristotle, his opinion as to the use of the brain and heart, 365 Arteries, irritability and muscular con- traction of, 411 AsTRuc, quoted, 377 Anger, its effect on the secretions, 419- 421 Bartholin, 373 Bauhin Caspar, the first to deny the doctrines of Galen, 370 Benevenius, his doctrine as to the ani- mal functions, 369 Blood-vessels, action of the nerves on the, 408-412 Blumenbach, his hypothesis of a nisus formativus, 426 Boerhaave, doctrines of his school on the brain, 377 ; his opinion on the animal spirits, 377; where places the sensorium commune, 429 BoHADSCH, his description of the lernaea, 388 Bones, morbid, sensibility of, 394; Murray on, 394; Brambilla on 395 note. Bonnet, 386 Brain, its use, according to Aristotle, 365; the opinions of Hippocrates, Plato, Galen, and others, as to its functions, 365-369; its systole and diastole, 367, 369 ; intellect, according to Galen, does not depend on its convolutions, 368; case of injury of, by Galen, 367; the use of its cir- cumvolutions, according to Columbus, Brain (continued) 369; its cortical substance secretes the animal spirits, 374; Malpighi and Willis support this opinion, 375 j man has the largest, except certain apes, 384; structure and composition of, in animals, ib.; the proportion it bears to other parts of the body, 385 ; its medullary matter not wholly vas- cular, 389; is the organ of the mind, 442; is probably a compound organ, 446, 447 Caldani opposed the doctrine of animal spirits, 379 Camper, his opinion on the consensus of the nerves, 433 Capillaries, action of the nerves on the, 408-412 Cerebellum, use of the vermiform process of the, according to Galen, 368 ; the seat of involuntary motions, according to Willis, 375; description of the, 381 Cerebrum, why softer than the nerves, and double, according to Galen, 367; its use, according to Willis, 375; de- scription of the, 381 ; what portion of, subservient to this or that faculty, un- known, 446 Circulation, influence of the nerves on, in the capillaries, 408 ; excited by a sti- mulus to the nerves, 409; can it be repelled by the nerves? 417 Columbus, his opinion on the use of the circumvolutions of the brain, 369 Conarium, see Pineal Gland. Congestion caused by the action of nerves, 409 ; theories of, 410; various phenomena caused by, 416 Consensus of the nerves, inquiry into, 433 ; where it takes place, ib.; when in the ganglia, 435 Consciousness, to what it belongs, 441 Corpora striata, functions of their ascend- ing and descending fibres, 375