Volume 1
The brain : considered anatomically, physiologically and philosophically / by Emanuel Swedenborg ; edited, translated and annotated by R.L. Tafel.
- Emmanuel Swedenborg
- Date:
- 1882-1887
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Credit: The brain : considered anatomically, physiologically and philosophically / by Emanuel Swedenborg ; edited, translated and annotated by R.L. Tafel. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.
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![prepare the chyle and the blood; the middle is that of the thorax, containing the sources of the determinations of the blood and of motion, or the heart and lungs; the highest is that of the head, containing the organs of sense, namely, of taste, smell, hearing, and sight. All these are covered with an armour by the muscles, which are disposed and articulated into a wonder- ful order. The circle of this sphere, however, has been run through in previous Parts. 6. The second or middle sphere, or that which is immediately above the former, is that of the causes which determine the principles into effects, or the ends into uses; in this wise \i.e. through the sphere of causes] the soul does the things which are to be determined in the body; for this sphere conveys the sensations from the organs of the body to the soul, and the actions from the soul into the body. The cerebrum is therefore called the common or general organ of motion and the common sensory, and it is divided and separated from the lower sphere by walls of bone, namely, the skull and the vertebrae of the spme, so that there is no communication between these two spheres except through foramina or holes. This second sphere, therefore, is the principal medium by which the principles are united with the effects, or the soul with the body; it is also a complex of determinants, which it arranges and disposes in such a manner that it performs aright the part of an efficient cause ; for it gathers and folds together the fibres which spring from the principles, and sends them out into the provinces of the body, in such a manner that it keeps constantly under the mtuition and rule of the soul the organs of sense and of motion, and the remaining members of the lowest sphere. Besides, the cerebrum also works up into a certain lymph or into a kind of purer blood the animal spirit, which is con- ceived, elaborated, and produced in the cortical substance. This lymph, together with the chyle, produces the red blood of the body. On this account the cerebrum acts also in the body the part of the mediate and efficient cause of the blood. This is the purpose of the organs of the cerebrum, namely, of the corpus](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21292991_0001_0047.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
