42 ~~ An Argument againft 
What Prartervs faw, fhall be told by himfelf: 
“* Tpfam adeo cerebri fubfantiam in Anu quadam 
“* defluxiffle obfervavimus Monfpeffuli, quz _fubité 
** apoplexia tacta expiravit : ‘hujus calvariam cum 
‘* aperimus, cerebrum illius in Meninvge crafla hinc 
** inde flutuare deprehendimus. Quod et diffecta 
** apertaque dura .difta Matre, liquoris alicujus 
“ fpiffioris et albi pultem referentis per faciem 
** univerfam defluebat, et hinc inde in pannos 
‘ difpergebatur.* 
Of all the learned in us, whom I have quoted, 
I believe you have the greateft refpect for Bonnetus; 
and it happens very luckily that the ftrongeft fact. 
to my purpofe depends on his own obfervation. In 
a patient who died after an illnefs of twelve years, 
e 
without having any alienation of mind, Bonnet 
found the whole fubfance of the brain watery, and 
fo foft that it would hardly bear the knife. ‘The 
{pinal 
« of the difeafe. The child however increafed in fize, grew 
** ftrong in his limbs, and took food, He could both hear 
*- and fee well, and fo continued until he was eighteen 
«« months old. He then died fuddenly, without any con- 
f vulfive attack, On opening the Cranium, more than 
«* five quarts of very limpid water were found within it ; 
«+ there was not the fmalleft trace of membrane or brain, except 
© oppofite the orbits and meatus auditorius, where fome- 
6° thing like medulla {till remained.” Dr, Quin en Dropfy 
of the Brain, Append. p, 105. grase 
* Addend. ad Wepf. p. 615. 
