[64] See MALPIGHI: ›Opera Omnia›, 1686-87, Tom. II., De Cerebri cortice,
pp. 78 _et seqq._ ›In — — cerebro corticem affusum minimarum glandularum
proventum et congeriem esse deprehendi: hæ in cerebri gyris et protractis
veluti intestinales, ad quæ desinunt albæ nervorum radices, vel inde, si
mavis, oriuntur — — —›; and SWEDENBORG: Œc. R. A. II., Nos. 76-82, 112,
114 etc.
[65] See BOERHAAVE: ›Institutiones medicae›, 1720, No. 266: ›folliculi
illi minimi glandulosi emittunt tenues fibras, albas, compactas quibus
adenutis fit callosum, medullosumque corpus› — — —; No. 274: ›fibras
has canaliculos tenuissimos pervios esse, qui in se excipiant humorem
corporis humani omnium quidem subtilissimum, qui fabrica mirifica
corticis praeparatus, secretus atque vi in has fistulas impulsus est, ex
omni quidem parte hujus in medullam oblongatam collectus; see also No.
263; No. 284: ›fibrillas nerveas humorem medullae — — ad omne punctum
totius corporis distinctissimis viis deferre.› — —
[66] ›Nisi mutua sit connexio et perpetua communicatio substantiae
medullaris qua fibrillas et manipulos intra thecam vertebralem et
cranium, undecunque ducitur ad corticem cerebri. — — —› (Œc. R. A. II.,
No. 193; See also No. 115).
[67] See above CASP. and THOM. BARTHOLIN: ›Inst. Anat.›, 1645, p. 265.
[68] See H. BOERHAAVE: ›Inst. Med.›, 1720, N. 574. or 274.
[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.
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