An experimental inquiry into the laws of the vital functions : with some observations on the nature and treatment of internal diseases / by A.P. Wilson Philip.

  • Alexander Wilson Philip
Date:
1817
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Credit: An experimental inquiry into the laws of the vital functions : with some observations on the nature and treatment of internal diseases / by A.P. Wilson Philip. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    by the passions, his opinion appears undecided. He has recourse to the ganglions, and hesitates what function to ascribe to them. Sometimes he considers them as knots, as ligatures, so tight as to intercept all communication be- tween the heart and Sensorium Commune, in the calm and peaceful state of the system, but not sufficient to prevent the Sensorium re-acting more or less powerfully on the heart in the agitation of the passions.* Sometimes he seems to believe that the interception is complete and constant, and that it is by the nerves of the eighth pair that the passions affect the heart ;f and he seems to adopt the opinion of Winslow,]; renewed by Winterl,§ Johnstone,!! Unzer,1i Lecat,** Peffinger,ff &c. that the ganglions are so many small brains. He admits at the same time that the nerves of feeling are distinct from those of motion, so that the heart cannot contract except when the * Opera minora, Tom. 2, p. 165. t Ibid, p 167. I Exposit. Anatom. Traite des Nerfs, § 394. § Nov. Iiiflam. Theoria, Viennae, 1767, cap. 5, p. 154.. II Essay on the Use of the Ganglions, 1771. ^ Unzer quoted by Prochaska oper. minor.Tom. 2. p. 169. ** Traite de I'exislence de la nature et des proprietes du fluide nerveux, Berlin, 1765, p. 225. ft De structura nervorum, Argentorati, 1782, Sect. I, §34, inserted in the Collection of Ludwig, vol. 1.