Copy 2, Volume 1

A treatise on nervous diseases / by John Cooke.

  • John Cooke
Date:
1820[-1823]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on nervous diseases / by John Cooke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mind is placed, or originates, in the left ventricle of the heart.* Hippocrates knew nothing distinctly concerning the nature and uses of the nerves, though he seems to have had some confused notions respecting the nervous power, which, however, he places in the veins. If the spirit, he says, which flows through the veins be stopped or interrupted, the part in which it 1s stop- ped becomes impotent: thus, in sitting or lying down, when the veins are compressed so that the spirit does not pass through them, a torpor is immediately | induced. He confounds the nerves sometimes with the veins §, sometimes with the ligaments and tendons. || * Tyan yap 1 Tod avdpmmou meguxey Ev TH AcuH XOIAIY. De Corde, p. 50. From this circumstance, it appears highly probable, that the book, ep} xap8ing, ought to be placed among the spuriows works which bear the name of Hippocrates. + ’Axpares ylveras. + ’EvSus vapxn eyes. § Es rods dgSaamods PAgBsa Aemra es tHy oy. De Locis in Homine, p. 2. (| Yet Galen, in the 14th chapter, De Locis Affectis, speaking of MHerophilus and Eudemus, says, Tay apotuv el Imeronparny vevpwv avarouny emipedds ypavayrov. De Loc. Aff: \. iii, c. 14.
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