Theory of the human sensations / by Marmaduke Berdoe.

  • Marmaduke Berdoe
Date:
1773
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Credit: Theory of the human sensations / by Marmaduke Berdoe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ ' . ' ' the frame, as into fo many detach'd centers. Whatever organ* therefore* becomes active, either from a fpontane- ous or neceffary influence, muft con- fequently deprive the neighbouring organs of fome part of their refpective forces. For the functions of the body are not performed from an increafed degree of aCtion in every organ* but from their refpeCtive proportions of exiftence varioufly modified*—From hence we deduce this general axiom, viz. That no one part of the body can move* but from the diminifhed action of fome other part. From this circumftance it is afferted* that the brain, when occupied by its object muft* from its increafed aCtion* diminifh the peculiar portion of fome other organ*—Now as the moft intimate connection prevails between the brain B 2 and