Phrenology, or the doctrine of the mind : and of the relations between its manifestations and the body.
- Johann Spurzheim
- Date:
- 1825
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Phrenology, or the doctrine of the mind : and of the relations between its manifestations and the body. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![81) 1*11 llKNOhOC Y. tested. A bird whose brain is half scooped out is not likely to sing, or to build a nest, kc. Finally, parts deranged by sympathy are sometimes more sensible than those which suffer ])rimitively or idiopathically. A headache often results from something indigestible in the stomach, and this without any feeling of pain in the stomach itself. Several French physiologists, particularly M. Flourens and M. Magendie, have recently mutilated the brains of various living animals ; from their observations the inference might be drawn that the whole brain and cerebellum are solely destined to regulate voluntary motion. This, however, is in contra¬ diction with all physiological observations on the brain in the healthy state. I think that it is impossible to determine the functions of the cerebral parts by mutilation. ill. Sir Everard Home’s Method. Sir Everard Home*, in his observations on the functions of the brain, read to the Royal Society on the 26th of May, 1814, seems to trust to a peculiar means of determining the functions of the cerebral parts. He says: The various attempts which have been made to procure accurate information re¬ specting the functions that belong to individual portions of the human brain having been attended with very little success, it has occurred to me that, were anatomical surgeons to collect in one view all the appearances they had met with in cases of injury to that organ, and the effects that such injuries produced upon its functions, a body of evidence might be formed that would materially advance this highly important investigation.” He then informs his readers that he has brou2:ht toe’ether certain observations, stating them as so many experiments upon the brain, with the conclusions which tend to elucidate this particular enquiry.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2929597x_0102.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
