On apoplexy, including apoplexia hydrocephalica, or, water in the head : with an introductory account of the opinions of ancient and modern physiologists, respecting the nature and uses of the nervous system / by John Cooke.

  • Cooke, John, 1756-1838.
Date:
1820
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    neral disposition that the two systems are founded. M. Bichat is of opinion that every thing relating to the understanding belongs to the animal life, and what relates to the passions, to the organic; and he attempts to prove, that the state of the internal organs influ- ences the passions, and the passions the or- ganic functions, both in health and disease. M. Bichat describes, very much in detail, the external form, the organization, the properties, and the developement of the nervous system of the animal life; he then proceeds to make some general remarks re- specting the nervous system of the organic life; after which he particularly describes the situation, form, relations, organisation, properties, and developement of the gan- glions, the principal centres of the organic life. M. Bichat states that the view which he has taken of the nervous system is differ- ent from that of all former anatomists. He considers each ganglion as a particular centre, in its action independent of the others, furnishing or receiving, like the brain, its own nerves, and having nothing