p02 On the Nervous Systems of 
branches of the nervous system appear to” possess the 
general power, or office of furnishing nervous 
energy.’ Dr. Monto had previously attempted 
to-establish these points in his Observations on the 
Structure and Functions of the Nervous System: 
He says, ‘‘ for the reasons given in last section, I 
have long thought and endeavoured to prove, that 
our nerves, independent of the encephalon, pos- 
sess an energy, or principle of life, which they 
derive from their proper pia mater and its 
vessels.”” p. 35. 
4. A fetus has been found on dissection to be 
destitute of brain, spinal marrow, and optic 
nerves. This fetus was brought into the world 
by Mr. Barlow of Bolton, and an account of 
the case! is’ given in’ the Medical and Physical 
Journal for September 1860, ‘pages 189—191 $ 
from which I shall beg’ leave ‘to present the 
following abstract, 
The mother positively asserted that ‘she went 
two months over her time, and “ was not sen- 
sible, duting pregnancy, of any difference from 
what she had been formerly accustomed to, 
either in her own feelings, or in che motion of the 
child, and she had had many children, The 
birth was marked by no particular occurrence.” 
But this fetus was still born, which the relater 
of the case supposes “ has always been the case, 
