A treatise on the more obscure affections of the brain : on which the nature and successful treatment of many chronic diseases depend ; being the Gulstonian lectures, delivered at the College of Physicians, in May 1835 / by A.P.W. Philip.

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1835
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    A TREATISE ON THE MORE OBSCURE AFFECTIONS OF THE BRAIN, &c. INTRODUCTION. There is no other department of physiology which has either been so productive of error, or the errors of which have so extensively or to so great a degree influenced the practice of medicine, as those which have prevailed, and, indeed, in a great measure still prevail, relating to the functions of the nervous system. While we are disputing respecting the powers of particular nerves (a subject, doubtless, of no small importance in elucidating the functions of life), the attention has been so little directed to the great laws of the nervous system, on which all the phenomena of both health and disease more or B