A compleat discourse of wounds : both in general and in particular: whereunto are added the severall fractures of the skull, with their variety of figures. As also a treatise of gunshot-wounds in general / collected and reduced into a new method by John Brown.

  • John Browne
Date:
1678
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Credit: A compleat discourse of wounds : both in general and in particular: whereunto are added the severall fractures of the skull, with their variety of figures. As also a treatise of gunshot-wounds in general / collected and reduced into a new method by John Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are without it felf, unlefs it be by the mediation of a Corporeal Organ, into w hich the Species of forms of material fubftances may be tranfmitted, by which after¬ wards they may be exhibited, and in which place they may both be apprehended and contemplated. Hence therefore w'ho will deny that the Brain is the mod: no¬ ble of all the Members/eeing it is the Seat of all the Ani¬ mal Faculties, Imagination, Senfe, Difcourfe, Reafon, and Memory ? And hence Hphrodijans. calls it apyuvov ypovwthe Organe of Wifdome. Homer calls it vfeevos, thz Heaven ; hence coming all Senfe and Motion which is bellowed on the fubjacent parts. It is fitua- ted in the Head as in its Caftle; and in the Upper part as being the Palace of the Soul . ' As to its Magnitude and Connexion,it is generally found in Man of a great quan¬ tity, becaufe it being the Inftrument of his Reafon, it is neceflary itihould require and contain in it a plenty of Ipirits: It s knit to the Cranium by Veins, Arteries and Nerves, with the reft of its parts: A s to its Subftance, it is made of Sperme and the maternal Blood . and out of thefe two is generated this glandulous matter. It is ge¬ nerally white from its fpermatick matter furnifhed with many fpirits: It is foft, being the Original of the foft Nerves. in its Cerebellum it s not fo foft, this being the Origination of Nerves which are more hard: It is of a cold and moift temper; and Hippocrates in his Book dc Carnibus^ calleth it ^nTyoTroKiv t« -vpj^pa jca.1 tb x.oMot>cfgoV, or the chief Seat of cold and glutinous moyfture, framed thus to hold and contain the fubtile animal fpirits; and cold, for tempering their hear. I (hall pretermit the divifions of the Brain, and its Coats, and come to its in¬ ward parts, where w^e may meet with it furnifhed with a callous body, two ftriated bodies , a Thalamus Opticus Nervorum, Nat ifor mil Prominencies, Medullary Pro- C€J]es) Glandula Pine alls, Orbicular Protuberances, called Nites,and Tefies, an Infundibulum, and a Cerebellum with A a 2 its