Theory of the human sensations / by Marmaduke Berdoe.

  • Marmaduke Berdoe
Date:
1773
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Theory of the human sensations / by Marmaduke Berdoe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    this region, are in fuch cafe, peculiar¬ ly affefted, becaufe it is they which have been the molt employed.—Borelli obferves that the diaphragm is peculi¬ arly affe&ed when we afcend a preci¬ pice or flairs, or ufe a more than com¬ mon degree of force.—This mufcle feems therefore to be the principal cen¬ ter. of the animal forces. ✓ « One obfervation may be offered in proof of this laft affertion, which is, the uneafy feel, or kind of pain, which feveral perfons find, when the body is laid in an horizontal fituation, and its immediate ceflation, when they ftand upright. ' * It were to be wiihed, that fome cer¬ tain and juft theory could be given, why the peculiar fenfibility of the whole machine, feems as it were to be concentrated, within the fmall fpace of