On the Functions of the Brain and of Each of Its Parts - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 edition. Excerpt: ...Indeed, the weak side was much less elevated, and much narrower than the other. l/Many physicians think it improbable, that the two hemispheres could exist in states so different, and that the exercise of their functions could differ in so striking a manner. But what is hemiplegia, but a paralysis of one half of the brain, which occasions paralysis of one side, and generally the opposite side of the body'! I have seen a patient thus affected, who was confined to his bed more than twenty years; the diseased side wasted away, the eye on that side became gradually affected with atrophy, whilst the other retained all its vigor; the mouth was constantly drawn one side; and yet I did not observe that he had lost any one of his intellectual faculties. In cases of cerebral effusion, which so often occur in Extract of a letter of Dr. Bnile, written from Rome to Dr. Brayer, 30th May, 1822. " You may tell r. Gall, that I have a cast of Tasso, which was taken from his face, and that although one part of the organ of poetry is cutoff, still the lateral breadth of the cranium in this di rection 1S enormous. children, after an inflammation of the brain, that has been misconceived or badly treated, one side ofthe head is almost always hotter than the other, and to this side they keep it inclined. Generally on this side, the bloodvessels are more turgescent, and we find inflammation, and even suppuration, hydatids, in the cerebral membranes, and a more abundant effusion. In the megrim," the blood-vessels are manifestly more turgescenton one side than on the other; we have had an opportunity of verifying this, through the complaisance of Osiander, professor at Goettingen. This eminent man showed us the brain of a young girl, who, after...