[54] See ›Œconomia Regni Animalis›, I., Nos. 559 _et seqq._, as also R.
VIEUSSENS: ›Neurographia universalis›, Lugduni, 1685, pp. 123, 124, _et
seqq._
[55] See BOERHAAVE: ›Institutiones medicae›, Lugduni Batavor. 1720, No.
415: ›Ergo musculi voluntarii nervos habent ultimo oriundos a cerebro.
Illi vero, qui spontaneis, vitalibusque motibus serviunt, a cerebello
nervos accipiunt.›
[56] See TH. WILLIS: ›Cerebri Anatome›, Amsterdam, 1667, pp. 73-74:
›Cerebrum motuum et conceptuum omnium origo et fons. Sensus et motus,
item passiones et instinctus mere naturales, licet a Cerebro quadantenus
dependent, tamen proprie in Medulla oblongata et Cerebello aut
perficiunter aut ab iis procedunt.
[57] See Œc. R. A. III., No. 404, etc.: ›Medulla oblongata — — —
sensorium et motorium commune tam Cerebri quam Cerebelli, sed secundarium
et instrumentale superius. Medulla spinalis similiter — — — sensorium et
motorium commune, sed secundarium et instrumentale inferius.›
[58] Œc. R. A., III., No. 133: ›Substantia — — — corticalis est ipsum
Cerebrum seu Sensorium — — — commune›; No. 404, etc.
[59] See R. DESCARTES: ›Tractatus de homine›, Lugd. Bat. 1662, pp. 77,
81, 82; 32, 67 etc.: 72, 79 etc.
[60] See H. BOERHAAVE: ›Institutiones medicae›, Lugd. Bat. 1720, p.
253: ›Sensorium commune est pars cerebri, — — —, adeoque, ut apparet,
medulla cerebri in capite;› and BOERHAAVE: ›Praelectiones academicae,
(published by HALLER), Göttingen, 1743, p. 451: ›Haec ergo sedes animae
non est in pineali glandula, uti CARTESIUS voluit,—neque est in medulla
spinali, neque est in cerebello, verum _in fornicata medulla circumstante
cavitatem ventriculorum cerebri_.›
[61] See CASP. et THOM. BARTHOLIN: ›Instit. anatom.›, 1641, p. 265:
›Putamus enim in Cerebro proprie dicto, vel cortice servari spiritum
animalem pro sensu, in medulla vero tota tam quoad caput quam quoad
caudam, reservari spiritum pro motu.›
[62] See THOMAS WILLIS: ›Cerebri Anatome., 1667, pp. 76, 77: ›Etenim
existimare fas est, spiritus animales — — in corticali cerebri substantia
procreari› — — — ›hæ partes medullares spirituum animalium exercitio et
dispensationi — — — inserviunt;› and J.J. WINSLOW: ›Exposition anatomique
— — —›, 1732, IV., p. 210: ›WILLIS nous donne un système tout-à-fait
particulier. Il loge le sens commun dans le corpus striatum ou corps
rougé, l’imagination dans le corps callosum, et la mémoire dans l’écorce
ou dans la substance grisâtre qui envelloppe la blanche.›
[63] See M. MALPIGHI: ›Opera Omnia›, 1686-87, Tom. II., p. 85:
›Suspicari possumus minimis hisce glandulis ex delato sanguine separari,
recolligique particulas illas a natura ad promendum instrumentaliter
sensuum destinatas, quibus per nervorum tubulis delatis continuatae
partes inbibantur et turgeant.›
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