Chapter III: Part 3

[69] See above A. V. HALLER: ›Elem. Physiol.›, 1762, IV., p. 392.

[70] Œc. R. A. loco cit. and II., 88. See also A. PACCHIONI: ›Opera›, Ed. quarta, Romæ, 1741, p. 112.

[71] See BOERHAAVE: ›Instit. med.›, 1720, No. 570, 574. The edition used by SWEDENBORG was printed 1727.

[72] ›Nempe in sensorio communi distinctas loco provincias esse pro diversis sensibus, uti cuilibet sensui suum externum proprium organum datum est.› BOERHAAVE: ›Prael. acad.›, published by HALLER 1743, Vol. IV., p. 435. See also BOERHAAVE: ›Inst. med.›, 1720, No. 568.

[73] These lobes are, as he says, ›marked out and encompassed by the carotid artery, a statement by which he probably means the same as RIDLEY, when the latter says of the whole anterior region that it is marked out, as it were, by two branches of the carotid artery, one at the front and one at the side, i. e., _Arteria cerebri anterior_ and _Arteria cerebri media_.

[74] J. J. WEPFER: ›Observationes anatomicæ ex cadaveribus eorum, quos sustulit Apoplexia›. Amstelædami, 1681, pp. 5-11, Case II.

[75] See A. PACCHIONI: ›Opera›, Ed. quarta, Romæ, 1741, p. 112.

[76] See J. B. WINSLOW: ›Exposition anatomique de la Structure du corps humain.› Paris, 1732, IV., p. 210. With WILLIS one also finds the same subdivision of the hemispheres of the brain into an anterior and a posterior ›province›, as that employed by SWEDENBORG.

[77] VIEUSSENS: ›Neur. univ.›, pp. 115, 117, and Tab. X.

[78] Op. cit., pp. 115, 117, and Tab. XVI.

[79] Op. cit., pp. 115, 117 and Tab. XV.

[80] Œc. R. A. II., No. 153: ›Experientiae est et temporis, ut evestigetur, qui gyrus et qui serpens tumulus in cerebro hunc aut illum musculum ut correspondentem suum in corpore respiciat. ’Cuniculos cerebri serpere, per autopsiam deprehenditur’ ait Clar. PACCHIONUS, BELLINUS et alii plures.›

[81] See MALPIGHI: ›Op. omnia›, II., De Cerebro, p. 2, and SWEDENBORG: Œc. R. A., II., Nos. 82, 58, etc.

[82] MALPIGHI: ›Opera omnia›, 1686-87, II., De Cerebri cortice, p. 78, and SWEDENBORG: Œc. R. A., II., Nos. 76-82, 112, 114, etc.

[83] MALPIGHI: Op. cit. p. 78: ›Harum glandularum distinctionem affuso atramento (ink) et leviter gossypio deterso, videbis, intercepta enim spatia ita denigrantur, ut circumscriptas glandulas facilius exhibeant.› See also Œc. R. A. No. 76.

[84] MALPIGHI: Op. cit., p. 79: ›Corticales hae glandulae tortuose locatae exteriores cerebri gyros componunt, et exorientibus inde medullaribus fibris seu vasculis appenduntur›. See also Œc. R. A., II., No. 76.

[85] See Œc. R. A., II., No. 191: ›Quod sensationes externæ non ad ulteriores metas quam ad sphaerulas corticales pertingant, id satis in confirmato est, quando hae fibrarum nervearum et medullarium sunt principia, ultra quae si progrederentur, ut si in arteriolas aut meninges, tunc praescriptos terminos superscanderent et a centris in remotiores peripherias se conjicerent.›

[86] See Œc. R. A., III., No. 127: ›Si enim vivum corticem in apertis cerebris lente microscopica, sive delineatum ex vivo contemplamur, evidenter conspicitur, quomodo fibra ex illo procedat, et tanquam rivulus ex fonticulo scaturiat; id etiam in hydrocephalis, apoplecticis, catalepticis, paralyticis, maniacis, motibus convulsivis et spasmis cynicis vexatis confirmatur, nam ipsa labes substantiæ eorum corticalis post mortem deprehensa in continuas fibras, et tandem in musculares, unde prodeunt actiones et inconcinni motus, derivatur. — — — Ergo, quia substantia corticalis est parens fibrarum, sequitur, quod cerebrum non nisi quam in hac sua substantia incipiat cerebrum esse, quatenus ibi est receptaculum sensationum seu sensorium commune, et simul principium actionum, seu motorium commune.›

[87] See Œc. R. A., II., No. 156: ›Vitiato uno cerebellulo aut pluribus in toto, contagium se non latius quam in appensas fibras et subjectos musculos immediate extendat.›