The morbid anatomy of the brain in mania and hydrophobia ; with the pathology of these two diseases as collected from the papers of the late Andrew Marshal; with an account of some experiments to ascertain whether the pericardium and ventricles of the brain contain water in a state of health / to which is prefixed a sketch of his life by S. Sawrey.

  • Marshal, Andrew, 1742-1813.
Date:
1815
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Credit: The morbid anatomy of the brain in mania and hydrophobia ; with the pathology of these two diseases as collected from the papers of the late Andrew Marshal; with an account of some experiments to ascertain whether the pericardium and ventricles of the brain contain water in a state of health / to which is prefixed a sketch of his life by S. Sawrey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    able physician in London, from an assistant in Dr. Hope's public garden. This friend remarks of him at this time—- He took to the study with enthusiasm, and, in following it, used often to surprise his companion with the warmth of his expressions on the beauty of the plants and the wisdom of the structure. His powerful mind was never satisfied with the perception of the fact; it was always rising from the particu- lar incidents of any science to its philosophy; from the fact to its principle. Hence we have heard him descant for half an hour on the phi- losophy of the construction of one of the bones of the feet: emphatically pointing out the wis- dom of the contrivance. In January 1777 he read two well argued and ingenious papers to a medical society at Edinburgh. The first in Latin, De Natura caloris; the other in English, On the Form- ation of calculous Concretions in the Human Body. It was in this year he came to London to study for his professional improvements. On this important direction of his life he merely remarks, in his own notes,—<e I was enabled by favor of Mr. Campbell to study in London in 1777.