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the Doétrine of Materialifin. 23 
injured, the Senfes are, in general, proportionably 
affeted. This feems to point out a difference in 
the Caufes of Thought and Senfation.* 
Cafes in which confiderable parts of the fubftance 
of the brain have been loft, either by immediate 
injuries, or by fuppuration following wounds and 
fra@tures of the Skull, are more numerous, than 
conclufive.f Neither will you make much account 
of them, as they chiefly relate to the hemifpheres, 
and you feem{ to make the bafis of the brain the 
moft effential part to perception, confequently, 
according to your fcheme, to the procefs of think- 
jug. Of this I am very glad, for a reafon which 
fhall be given afterwards. 
The 
_ * Do not call this aflertion extravagant, till you read the 
following Story, quoted by Weprer. 
“‘ Mirabilis eft capitis vulneratio, quam recenfet Valle- 
* riola Obf, Med. 1. 4. obf. 10, de milite quodam, qui xnei 
* tormenti globulum excepit in tempore finiltro, eo paulo 
*altius egrediente ex oppofito latere, diftraéto et dilace- 
*‘ rato utrinque Cranio; qui citra apoplettica fymptomata, 
‘‘ miraculo integre curatus fuit, nifi quod /furdafter et 
* cacus manferit, De loc, affe&. in Apopl. p. 205. 
I dare not tranfcribe the flory of the Polifh Nobleman 
which follows; (p. 206, 207)—the ridiculum acri may 
coalefce, but the ridiculum vero is a hazardous con- 
junétion. 
+ V. Haller. Phyfiolog, T. 4. p. 316 et feq. and refpeéting 
the Cerebellum, Morgagni, Epift. lii, §27. Haller T, 4. 
P- 350 ct feq.—Diemerbroeck Anatom, p. 582. Weovfer 
Hift, Apopleéticor, (Ed. 1727) p. 208, 209. 
¢ Traéts, vol. 1. p, 181, Note- 
