Volume 1

The brain, considered anatomically, physiologically and philosophically / Ed., tr. and annotated by R. L. Tafel.

  • Emmanuel Swedenborg
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1882-1887
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    CHAPTER I. THE CEREBRUM, ITS FABRIC, MOTION, AND FUNCTION IN GENERAL.1 A. The Cerebrum, its Substances and Members IN GENERAL.2 8. Th. Bartholin.3—“The external part is properly and strictly called the cerebrum, and it comprises the whole of that mass which forms its circumference, and appears soft, and of an ashy-grey, or of a yellowish-white colour. . . . The inter- nal part constitutes the rest of it, which is hidden away interiorly; it is harder, and more compact, and of a more shiny white colour: this part may be called the medulla or marrow, and in it, not, however, in the cerebrum itself, are situated the so-called ventricles. . . . The size of the human cerebrum is considerable, compared with the rest of the body; and generally man has twice as much cerebrum as an ox, namely, from four to five pounds; and among human beings again males have more 1 The author’s instructions in respect to the citations from the old anatomists which are to be inserted here, as contained in Codex 58 (Photolithographed MSS., vol. vi. p. 62), are as follows : “There is to be premised the experience collected in chapter vii. p. lxxiii, of the first projection [Codex 55 of the Sweden- borg MSS. preserved in Stockholm] ; also concerning the motion of the brain perhaps the experience collected in chapter i. [ibid. ], and likewise what has been said respecting the cortical and medullary substances in general elsewhere, both in my manuscripts and my printed works. Note : I have been commanded (Obs. jussus sum).” The plan of chapter i. of the present work is given on pp. 62 and 63 of the same MS. in these words : “a. The cerebrum; 6. the fabric of the cerebrum— see chapter vii. of our first projection ; c. the motion of the cerebrum—see chapter i. of our first projection ; d. the function of the cerebrum.”—Editor. 2 The anatomical experience contained in subdivision A of chapter i., in agreement with the above instructions, is supplied from chapter vii. of Codex 55, Photolithographed MSS., vol. v. pp. 134-140.—Editor. 3 Thomcc Bartholini Anatomc, etc., Leyden, 1673, lib. iii. cap. iii.
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