36 An Argument againft 
‘* Ja volume des teftes, celui des cordons qui vont 
“* des teftes au Cervelet, et les cordons qui vont 
“* du Cervelet ala Moélle de l'epine, pour former 
‘la plume a ecrire, enfin toute la portion de la 
‘* Moélle allongée, qui f'etend depuis l’ane et la 
‘“* Vulve jufqu’ a la Moélle de lepine, etoit fort . 
| ** applatie’— 
Look at the perpendicular fection of the Brain, 
engraved in Dr, Monro’s treatife on the Nervous 
Syftem, and you will perceive, that preffure in 
this dire&tion muft have produced a violent effect, 
on thofe parts which you feem inclined to reckon 
the moft important, at the bafis of the brain. 
As to the Pineal Gland, it has fo ofien been found 
f{uppurated,* or petrified,f or full of fabulous par- 
ticles, without any previous affection of the facul- 
ties, that it feems to be given up as unneceffary to 
thinking, by general confent; and as Mr. SHanpy 
himfelf abandoned it,f Ithink it may pafs for an 
untenable poft. 
Flatter quotes a cafe from Dr. Riprey, which 
I have not been able to verify by confulting the 
original, and as you well know the danger of 
giving implicit faith to quoted quotations, you will 
expect to fee Haller’s own words: ‘t Ulcus Cerebri 
‘‘ piam membranam et corticem ad medullam 
*« globofam 
* Mem. de l’Acad. Royal. l’an. 1703. 
+ Manget. Theatr. Anatom. L. 4. C. 2. 
¢ See Triftram Shandy, vol. II. 
