30 ~ An Argument againft 
opinion, and certainly, as far as we may conclude 
from Dr. Haller’s experiments, poffeffing a nicer 
degree of fenfibility than the upper and lateral 
parts of the Mafs: diftinguifhed too, as whimfically 
in its different regions, by Anatomifts, as the 
celeftial Globe is divided by Aftronomers. ; 
* Morcacni relates the cafe of a Man, who died 
on the fourteenth day of a paralytic affection, 
having retained his fenfes during the greateft part 
of the time. On opening the head, and taking 
out the brain, a fmall quantity of purulent matter 
was obferved in the bafis of the fkull; ‘* qua 
** abfterfa, dum cerebrum tractatur, ibidem nova 
confpicitur. Nimirum per Infundibulum e 
** ventriculis prodibat. Nam eadem  finifter, 
** dexterque prefertim redundabat. Quippe in 
‘“ hujus firiato Corpore foramen erat, quocum 
* ulcus finuofum communicabat, tertiam partem 
“* occupans fubftantiz, que a dextris bafim cerebri 
“© faciebat.”-¢ 
The following ftory, from Tutrius,t deferves 
to be inferted entire. ‘‘ Septuagenarius ebrius, 
ss delapfus ex altiori loco, contraxit in Calvaria 
¢ 
ec 
“tain 
* I may refer you to Dr, Haller’s Phyfiology for a 
colle&tion of proofs (againft La Peyronie) that difeafes of 
the Corpus Callofum and Fornix do not affeét the faculties, 
Tom. 4. P. 342. 
+Epift. Anat—Medic. v." Art. 2. 
+ Obferv. lib. 1. Cap. 13.—Vide Addend, ad Wepfer, | 
Hift. Apople&, p. 583. 
