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--cavitates hac inundate et replete fuerunt. 
‘¢ Plexus choroidei fubmerfi albicabant, qui alias 
“« rutilare confpiciuntur: hydatides aliquot in his 
““ numeravi; ---------- Infundibulum aqua 
* plenum, & reliquz -cerebri cavitates aquarum 
“ qlluvie inundate fuerunt, prefertim quartus ver 
“ triculus, ut immiffus ftylus ad fpinam dorfi ufque 
‘* dilaberetur. --------- Carotides aquis merfz 
“¢ albicabant: Cerebellum minime flaccidum, fed 
“ ficut relique cerebri partes firmum apparuit. 
“« Tota bafis cerebri & ipfa fpinalis medulla aquarum 
illuvie inundata fuit: ftylus huic commiffus ibat 
in profundum per fpinam dorfi. ----- certum 
** eft omnes cerebri receflus & cavitates fuiffe 
repletas & diftentas aqua; ipfam quoque fpina- 
“Jem medullam in fuo involucro hac penitus 
** fubmerfam obfervavimus,* 
Dr. Brunner adds, in the Scholium, that the 
man had been remarkably acute in his judg 
ment. I obferve that fome facts of this kind had 
made an impreffion on Weprer himfelf; for in his 
Exercitation de loco affeéto in Apoplexia, he takes fome 
pains to fhew, againft Riolan, that the faculties 
are not always injured by confiderable collections 
ef water in the Ventricles of the Brain.f Indeed, 
E in 
* Wepfer, Hift. Apop*e&. p. 427. 
See a hiftory equally ftriking in the Addenda to Wepfer, 
p- 607. 
+ P. 54 (Edit. 1724) and feq. 
