Epileptic and other convulsive affections of the nervous system, their pathology and treatment.

  • Radcliffe, Charles Bland, 1822-1889.
Date:
1861
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    CHAPTEE V. ON THE APPLICABILITY OF THE FOREGOING THEORY TO RHYTHMICAL AS WELL AS TO SIMPLE MUSCULAR MOTION. . In the preceding chapters, the object has been to dis- cuss certain physiological questions so as to arrive with as little delay as possible at the pathological problems with which they have to do; and, in order to this, I did not stop to speculate upon many objects of interest which presented themselves in and by the way. For the same reason, I propose to consider the questions belonging to the present chapter in the same manner, concerning myself only with the most salient instances of rhythmical mus- cular movement—the beating of the heart, the writhing movement of the alimentary canal, the heaving and falling of the chest,—and passing by altogether those rhythmical movements in which, as in vibratile ciliEe and in the lateral leaflets of the hedysarum gyrans, muscle is not the motive power. In doing this, however, I omit nothing, which, so far as I know, in any degree invalidates the conclusions winch may be drawn from the instances selected for con- sidcration. In dealing with these three problems, the plan which appears to be most satisfactory is to consider them, first in relation to the operation of the blood, and, secondly,' in relation to the operation of nervous influence; and this, therefore, is the plan which will be adopted in the following remarks.