Nerve aggregation (an important neuropathic standpoint) and medical free paths (armamentaria, &c.) / by H. Elliot-Blake.

  • Elliot-Blake, Hubert.
Date:
[1913?]
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Credit: Nerve aggregation (an important neuropathic standpoint) and medical free paths (armamentaria, &c.) / by H. Elliot-Blake. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    encumbered by the selfish feeling of the sovereign ego, or by the ecstatic and unknowable, or by the ethereal, spiritual, or half-demonstrative electric labor- atory conversions. Of course, spiritual subjections to the senses, like the belief in Priest-riding, have van- ished. Unconscious cerebration and sub-conscious ego too, have only been half answered on their intangible basis of unreality ; for the workings of the brain grow and grow regularly. Here it will be well to take one step further, and immaterial quality of thought. Yet, it must be brutally insisted upon as being material—and, still, how little we know of the nerve cell, or even of any of the fancy named cell albumens, or of colloids, zoogene, and lipoid filter membranes. Chemical elements differ not only in ordinary atomic quantity— but also in molecular material structure. The latter all vary in fixed tenacity—some being rendered less active than others. And the molecular material of the albumen and proteins seem to be amongst the most rarefied and minutely active. Yet the structure of life resides and consists in that. For example, the minutest part of an anaphylactic protein—or any ferment too— must be very loose in molecular material, for it combines in the most diversified way with the corresponding “ combine base ” of the Host’s serum albumens. [Antigens or complement are too much unknown to use as definite terms for my meaning of the combining bodies.] But all cell changes have these chemical adjustments at base; and even the brain cell has to work with similar exchanges. But from those exchanges they free dynamic and pressure force.