An experimental enquiry into the laws of the vital functions, with some observations on the nature and treatment of internal diseases / by A.P. Wilson Philip ... in part re-published, by permission of the President of the Royal Society, from the Philosophical transactions of 1815 & 1817, with the report of the National Institute of France on the experiments of M. le Gallois, and observations on that report.

  • Philip, Alexander Philip Wilson, 1770-1847.
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1818
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Credit: An experimental enquiry into the laws of the vital functions, with some observations on the nature and treatment of internal diseases / by A.P. Wilson Philip ... in part re-published, by permission of the President of the Royal Society, from the Philosophical transactions of 1815 & 1817, with the report of the National Institute of France on the experiments of M. le Gallois, and observations on that report. 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 between the heart and Sensorium Commune, in the calm and peaceful state of the system, but not suf-. ficient fo prevent the Sensorium re- acting more or less powerfully on the heart in the agitatiou of the passions.* Sometimes he seems to be- lieve that the interception is complete and con- stant, and that-it is by. the nerves of the eighth pair that the passions ‘affect the heart ;+ and he seems to adopt the opinion: of Winslow,{ re- newed by Winterl,§ Johnstone,||. Unzer,4] Le- cat,** Peffinger,t{ &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 — when the impression of the: stimulus on - Opera 1 minora, Tom. si Ly 165. t Ibid, p. 167. } Exposit. Anatom. Traité das Nerfs, § 364. § Noy. Inflam. Theoria, Vienne, 1767, cap. 5, p. 154. | Essay on the use of the Ganglions, 1771. 4 Unzer quoted by Prochaska ae minor. Tom. 2. p. 169. ** Traité de existence de ie: nature et des proprietes du fluide nerveux, Berlin, 1765, p- 225. tt De structura nervorum, Argentorati, 1782, Sect. 1, § 34. inserted in the Collection of Ludwig, vol. 1.