28 An Argument againft 
it, that Truth and Probability are not always of 
a fide. * 
On the faith of my Authors, then, I fhall fup- 
pofe it proved, that the thinking faculties have 
fubfifted after the deftruction of any fuperior or 
lateral part of the brain, and we will now con- 
fider, if you pleafe, how far they have furvived 
the depravation of the Cerebellum. To this pur- 
pofe fome examples are given by Morgagnif, but 
with fuch a truly Italian prolixity, that I am 
content to wave them, and to mention fome that 
may be brought within the bounds of ordinary 
attention. > 
Hater fays, ‘non infrequentia ulcera Cerebelli 
‘~funt, etiam cum integritate mentis, morfque 
“‘ inde lenta, duodecimo die, aut multo ferior, 
‘* fucceffit.” ~ And he mentions feveral inftances 
of Scirrhus affecting the Cerebellum, and producing 
death, without previoufly injuring the faculties, One 
cafe fell under his own infpection. || 
In Morgagni’s fixty-fecond epiftle, art. 15, a par- 
ticular account is given of a fatal Scirrhus of the 
Cerebellum, flow in its progrefs, not affecting the 
patient’s fenfes till the laft, and then only by in- 
tervals, 
* This thought, by the way, is attributed to St. Jerome, 
(See Gent. Mag. Dec. 1786)— Multa incredibilia reperies, 
et nom, ucrifemila, quae nihilominus tamen vera funt, 
+ Epift. Anat. med. LII, Art. 26, 276 
t Element. Phyfiolog. p. 350, 
| Id. Ib. 
