The ladies friend ; or, complete physical library / [Stephen Freeman].

  • Freeman, Stephen, M.D.
Date:
[1785?]
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Credit: The ladies friend ; or, complete physical library / [Stephen Freeman]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f4 .1 INTRODUCTION. great number of veins and arteries running* through all the fubftance thereof, adminiftering to the brain, both fpirit and life, vital and nutrimental nourifhment, which comes from the heart and liver by very minute, or ftnall veins and arteries; and concodded and recon- codled, elaborated and made very fubtile, paffing through thole woven and interlaced, turning and winding, in which labyrinth the vital fpirit often paffing and repaying, is perfected and refined, and becomes animal. The pia mater divides the fubflance of the brain into three certain cells and divifions, the foremoll part of which contains the mold, the middle part lefs, and the hindmofl part the leaf!. In the foremofl part of the brain imagination is feated ; in the middle, judgment; in the hindmofl part, memory: imagination is hot and dry in quality, quick and active, from whence it cometh that frantic men, and fuch as are lick of hot maladies, are excellent in that which belongs to imagination ; many upon fuch a diflemper have been excellent in poetry and divination, it never fleepeth, but is always working whether the man be Heeping or waking; and by the vapors that arife from the heart, from variety of cogitations, which wanting the regulation of judg- ment, •when man Jleepeth becomes a dream. Hence it appears that fubtilety, promptitude, and that which they commonly call Wit, belongeth td a hot imagination: it is adtive, birring, undertaketh all, and fets all the relt to work, it gathers the kinds of figures of things, both prefent, by the ufe of the five lenfes, and abfent by the common fenfe. Judgment is feated in the midll of the brain, there to bear and rule over the other faculties; it is the feat of the rational foul, and the judge of mens actions : if you know the mean, whereby it knoweth and judgetli of things, learned authors have been of opinion, that the fpirit knoweth by the help of the fenfes, and that the underbuilding without the fenfes is but as white paper. Nil cji in intellcElu, quod non fuerit prius in fenftu u There is nothing in the underitanding which was not fir ft in the fenle.” This opinion is falfe, becaufe the feeds of fcience and virtue are infinuated into our lpirits. elfe is the bate
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