the Doétrine of Materialifm. 2% 
Vesatius found almoft nine pints of water, in 
the brain of a girl only two years old. She had 
retained her fenfes perfectly till death.* 
DizmEreROECK, among other obfervations of the 
little effe& produced on the mind, by wounds of 
the brain, mentions one which came under his own 
notice. A young Man received a thruft with a 
fword, in the inner Canthus of the eye, which 
paffed through the right lateral ventricle, and flant- 
ing upwards, almoft paffed through the fkull, at 
the upper angle of the Lambdoidal Suture: yet 
the Patient remained in his ufual ftate of mind, 
“cum fociis convenienter et bono cum judicio 
“ quacunque de re differens,” till the tenth day, 
when he was carried off by a fever. 
- The fame Author quotes a cafe from Linpanus, 
of a patient, who, after receiving a wound in one 
D of 
* Morgag. de Cauf. & Sed. Morb. p. 37, § 2. Wepfer. 56. 
In one cafe mentioned by Morgagni, where the patient 
died, a month after falling on the head, and where the 
faculties were retained to the laft, there was a curious 
affection of the brain: ‘* Vix Dura deteéta fuerat, cum 
“ animadverfum eft, in Cerebri hemifphzrio finiftro 
** tertiam anteriorem partem multo humiliorem effe fua 
“* compari, multoque molliorem, neque in fummo tantum, 
* fed ubique penitus ne bafi quidem excepta. Scilicet 
* ob eam Mollitiem ita-fubfederat: que Mbollities cum 
** in corticali fubftantia erat, tum multo majus in medul- 
Jari, Hee enim in quandam velut gelatiznam magna 
* ex parte mutata erat.” 
+ Anatom. Lib. 3. p. 637. 
