Different Animals, ec} 489 
worum juncte prime origines efficiant yerum 
sensorium commune,’’* 
The following case, whilst it, in common with 
many others, shews the excessive injury, nay 
almost complete destruction, which the human 
brain may sustain, consistently with sensation 
and voluntary motion, provided this be gra- 
dually produced, makes strongly in favour of 
the conjecture of Haller. « — was 
born with a very large head, but seemed well in 
health, increased in strength and grew fat. The 
head soon became so unnaturally large and the 
features were so much altered, as to leave no 
doubt concerning the’ nature of the disease; the 
child however increased in size, grew strong in 
his limbs and took food: he could both hear 
and see well and so continued, until he was 18 
months old; he then died suddenly, without any 
convulsive attack, On opening the cranium, 
more than five quarts of very limpid water were 
found within’ it, there was not the smallest trace 
of membrane, or brain, except opposite the 
orbits and meatus auditorios, where something 
like medulla still remained.” This case was 
communicated to Dr. Quin by an eminent sur- 
geon in Dublin ;+ It is to be wished, that it had 
* Prime Linex Physiologiz § 972. 
t See Quin’s Treatise on the Dropsy of the Brain 
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