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CEREBRAL LOCALIZATION OF MENTAL FACULTIES.
574 the third week after parturition, a stomachic affection supervenes, such as pain, eructation, nausea, vomiting, and other dyspeptic symptoms, which continue until she again becomes pregnant, which has always occurred in five months after delivery. No uncommon appearance of the manimee is per-
ceptible-they being adequately developed. - Ha1>lan’s
Medical
Researches, p. 593.
CEREBRAL LOCALIZATION OF
MENTAL FACULTIES. ACCIDENTAL injuries of the brain, accordto the part affected, have produced sometimes a debility, at others a total destruction of certain faculties; for instance, a blow on that portion of the orbit of the eye, within which is located the organ of memory for words or names, has been
ing
which was one of the earliest to impress my mind with the importance of Phrenology, in explaining the animal functions. It is a fact well established in compara. tive anatomy, that the vocal organs of all those birds arranged under the extensive or. der Passeres, are constructed precisely on the same principle ; that is to say, all are fur. nished with a double glottis, a superior and inferior, the latter being furnished in every individual with six muscles, &c. Here then we see a numerous host of individuals, all possessed of similar musical instruments; yet few, very few indeed, are capable of dis. playing a musical talent; not more than one out of fifty is capable of producing a tune; and even of those species which are possess. ed of the highest musical proficiency, the males alone are capable of exerting it, the females, for the most part, remaining mute. Examples of this are observed in the linnet,
followed by complete forgetfulness of pro- the mocking-bird, bull-finch, gross-beak, &c. per names, whilst the other faculties of the Cuvier, who has noticed this circumstance brain remain uninjured. One of the most particularly in his " Lecons d’ Anatomie celebrated botanists of Europe, whose Comparee," confessed his inability to afford verbal memory knew no bounds, was any philosophical explanation on the comafflicted with a stroke of apoplexy. He mon theories of the operation of the brain, entirely recovered his intellect, with the and refers it to the operation of a particular exception of his memory for names; with instinct: thus acknowledging the existence the adjectives, the qualities and characters of a special and distinct faculty ; and de. of plants, he remained familiar; but for monstrating that the faculty of music resides ever after was unable to name them. in the brain, and not in the vocal organs. Effusions of serum into the cavities of the We "are led to draw the same conclusions brain, produce consequences which vary whenever we extend our observations into according to the manner in which the the inexhaustible field of comparative ana. accident occurs; whether the effusion was tomy.-Harlan’s Researches. slow or rapid: whether the pressure it occasions is partial or general. Instances BITE OF A RATTLESNAKE SUCCESShave occurred of effusion into the anterior FULLY TREATED. ventricles of the brain, obliterating to a the 13th of ON considerable degree all the superior order of faculties, whilst the propensity to pro- ber, Daniel Steel, a showman of livcreate the species (or amativeness, as it is was animals, in called,) continued more than usually active a male ratbitten -whiah propensity being seated in the on and tlesnake, the or under tentorium horii cerebellum, ’ of the index zontal process of the dura mater, did not the suffer compression from the fluid accumulated of the left hand: the acciin the cerebrum or brain proper. dent occurred at about four o’clock, In certain conditions of the iiiaterial inas he had strument of the mind, minor faculties which P.M. on a warm seized the have for a long time lain dormant, and supposed to have been lost, have been suddenly the neck, not so to the head recalled. Dr. Rush used to mention an inthe was able to turn but that animal stance of one of his fellow-students at Edinafter the burgh, who had once possessed some know- upon him. from ledge of the French language, so as to speak bite the blood flowed it indifferently, but who for many years had both the the parts entirely forgotten it; this gentleman becom- in the immediate of the ing intoxicated in a frolic, spoke the French became tumid and livid, language with the greatest fluency, to the punctures the efforts of the exclusion of the English. This state continued until he was carried to bed and fell at suction with his mouth, asleep. A circumstance somewhat similar which faintness him soon to fell under my own observation, in the,case of
Monday,
ing severely
Septem-
Philadelphia,
by large immediately below metacarpal joint finger
incautiously
day, just reptile by closely
Immediately freely fang-punctures: vicinity
notwithstanding patient
obliged
a
friend labouring under delirium. I may here call your attention to
On my arrival, about hour after the accident, I
relinquish.
a
fact half
an
ceptible-they being adequately developed. - Ha1>lan’s
Medical
Researches, p. 593.
CEREBRAL LOCALIZATION OF
MENTAL FACULTIES. ACCIDENTAL injuries of the brain, accordto the part affected, have produced sometimes a debility, at others a total destruction of certain faculties; for instance, a blow on that portion of the orbit of the eye, within which is located the organ of memory for words or names, has been
ing
which was one of the earliest to impress my mind with the importance of Phrenology, in explaining the animal functions. It is a fact well established in compara. tive anatomy, that the vocal organs of all those birds arranged under the extensive or. der Passeres, are constructed precisely on the same principle ; that is to say, all are fur. nished with a double glottis, a superior and inferior, the latter being furnished in every individual with six muscles, &c. Here then we see a numerous host of individuals, all possessed of similar musical instruments; yet few, very few indeed, are capable of dis. playing a musical talent; not more than one out of fifty is capable of producing a tune; and even of those species which are possess. ed of the highest musical proficiency, the males alone are capable of exerting it, the females, for the most part, remaining mute. Examples of this are observed in the linnet,
followed by complete forgetfulness of pro- the mocking-bird, bull-finch, gross-beak, &c. per names, whilst the other faculties of the Cuvier, who has noticed this circumstance brain remain uninjured. One of the most particularly in his " Lecons d’ Anatomie celebrated botanists of Europe, whose Comparee," confessed his inability to afford verbal memory knew no bounds, was any philosophical explanation on the comafflicted with a stroke of apoplexy. He mon theories of the operation of the brain, entirely recovered his intellect, with the and refers it to the operation of a particular exception of his memory for names; with instinct: thus acknowledging the existence the adjectives, the qualities and characters of a special and distinct faculty ; and de. of plants, he remained familiar; but for monstrating that the faculty of music resides ever after was unable to name them. in the brain, and not in the vocal organs. Effusions of serum into the cavities of the We "are led to draw the same conclusions brain, produce consequences which vary whenever we extend our observations into according to the manner in which the the inexhaustible field of comparative ana. accident occurs; whether the effusion was tomy.-Harlan’s Researches. slow or rapid: whether the pressure it occasions is partial or general. Instances BITE OF A RATTLESNAKE SUCCESShave occurred of effusion into the anterior FULLY TREATED. ventricles of the brain, obliterating to a the 13th of ON considerable degree all the superior order of faculties, whilst the propensity to pro- ber, Daniel Steel, a showman of livcreate the species (or amativeness, as it is was animals, in called,) continued more than usually active a male ratbitten -whiah propensity being seated in the on and tlesnake, the or under tentorium horii cerebellum, ’ of the index zontal process of the dura mater, did not the suffer compression from the fluid accumulated of the left hand: the acciin the cerebrum or brain proper. dent occurred at about four o’clock, In certain conditions of the iiiaterial inas he had strument of the mind, minor faculties which P.M. on a warm seized the have for a long time lain dormant, and supposed to have been lost, have been suddenly the neck, not so to the head recalled. Dr. Rush used to mention an inthe was able to turn but that animal stance of one of his fellow-students at Edinafter the burgh, who had once possessed some know- upon him. from ledge of the French language, so as to speak bite the blood flowed it indifferently, but who for many years had both the the parts entirely forgotten it; this gentleman becom- in the immediate of the ing intoxicated in a frolic, spoke the French became tumid and livid, language with the greatest fluency, to the punctures the efforts of the exclusion of the English. This state continued until he was carried to bed and fell at suction with his mouth, asleep. A circumstance somewhat similar which faintness him soon to fell under my own observation, in the,case of
Monday,
ing severely
Septem-
Philadelphia,
by large immediately below metacarpal joint finger
incautiously
day, just reptile by closely
Immediately freely fang-punctures: vicinity
notwithstanding patient
obliged
a
friend labouring under delirium. I may here call your attention to
On my arrival, about hour after the accident, I
relinquish.
a
fact half
an