The nine circles of the hell of the innocent : described from the reports of the presiding spirits / compiled by G.M. Rhodes ; with preface by Frances Power Cobbe.
- Rhodes, G. M.
- Date:
- 1892
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The nine circles of the hell of the innocent : described from the reports of the presiding spirits / compiled by G.M. Rhodes ; with preface by Frances Power Cobbe. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Cramp outlasted the irritation about two minutes. Ten minutes later another incision was made, the brain being cut into, and still the convulsions lasted. The wound on the surface of the brain was then covered with German tinder ; and the dog left to rest for twenty minutes, until the bleeding had stopped. The blood was then washed from the brain-wound, the German tinder removed, and the same places irritated where the incisions had been made. “ Loud howling and crying from the dogs was then heard; hut no other result.” Five minutes later a stronger electric current was applied; and “this stimulation was repeated several times with the same results.” “ Two hours later the former experiment was repeated, with irritation, incision, and stimulation of the same parts at the left side.”—Du, Bois-ReynmuVs Archiv., 18 84, p. 85. “ Experiment XVI. This, though not successful as regards the object intended, yet presents some interesting phenomena. The left occipital lobe was exposed posteriorly, and penetrated at the posterior extremity of the superior occipital fissure by means of hot wires, which ^ere directed with a view to follow the inner aspect of the temporo-sphenoidal lobe. There was no hasmorrhage from the sinus. During the ojperation, the animal was observed to make sighing respiration. The operation was finished at 4.30 p.m. The animal lay in a state of stupor for more than an hour, only making shght movements when disturbed, and then with its left limbs. “ 7 p.m.—The animal lies quiet, but indicates consciousness by grunting discontentedly when moved. Struggles with its limbs, chiefly the left, but occasionally with the right. On testing the cutaneous sensibility with the hot iron [i.e., burning the skin], reaction was decisive over the whole of the left side, but quite abolished in the right. The animal occasionally opened its right eye, but the left remained permanently closed. The animal passed into a state of coma, and was found dead at 11.30 p.m. The following experiment is a repetition of the last, and was only partially successful.”—Croonian Lecture, “Experiments on the Brain of Monkeys,” Philon. Trans., 1875, pp. 441-42.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28066790_0029.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
