INDEX 



PROCHASKA ON TPIE NERVOUS SYSTEM. 



[N.B. — The figures in this Index refer to the pages.] 



Albinus shows the cortex of the brain 

 not altogether vascular, 377, 389 



Anatomy of the nervous system — its 

 bibliography, 383 note. 



Animal functions, see Functions. 



Animalcules shown by Spallanzani to 

 be true animals, 386 ; how feel and 

 move, 387 



Arabs, the, located the animal functions 

 in the ventricles, 369 



Aristotle, his opinion as to the use of 

 the brain and heart, 365 



Arteries, irritability and muscular con- 

 traction of, 411 



AsTRuc, quoted, 377 



Anger, its effect on the secretions, 419- 

 421 



Bartholin, 373 



Bauhin Caspar, the first to deny the 

 doctrines of Galen, 370 



Benevenius, his doctrine as to the ani- 

 mal functions, 369 



Blood-vessels, action of the nerves on 

 the, 408-412 



Blumenbach, his hypothesis of a nisus 

 formativus, 426 



Boerhaave, doctrines of his school on 

 the brain, 377 ; his opinion on the 

 animal spirits, 377 ; where places the 

 sensorium commune, 429 



BoHADSCH, his description of the lernaea, 

 388 



Bones, morbid, sensibility of, 394 ; 

 Murray on, 394 ; Brambilla on 

 395 note. 



Bonnet, 386 



Brain, its use, according to Aristotle, 

 365 ; the opinions of Hippocrates, 

 Plato, Galen, and others, as to its 

 functions, 365-369 ; its systole and 

 diastole, 367, 369 ; intellect, according 

 to Galen, does not depend on its 

 convolutions, 368 ; case of injury of, 

 by Galen, 367 ; the use of its cir- 

 cumvolutions, according to Columbus, 



Brain (continued) 



369 ; its cortical substance secretes the 

 animal spirits, 374; Malpighi and 

 Willis support this opinion, 375 j 

 man has the largest, except certain 

 apes, 384; structure and composition 

 of, in animals, ib. ; the proportion it 

 bears to other parts of the body, 385 ; 

 its medullary matter not wholly vas- 

 cular, 389 ; is the organ of the mind, 

 442 ; is probably a compound organ, 

 446, 447 



Caldani opposed the doctrine of animal 

 spirits, 379 



Camper, his opinion on the consensus 

 of the nerves, 433 



Capillaries, action of the nerves on 

 the, 408-412 



Cerebellum, use of the vermiform process 

 of the, according to Galen, 368 ; the 

 seat of involuntary motions, according 

 to Willis, 375; description of the, 

 381 



Cerebrum, why softer than the nerves, 

 and double, according to Galen, 367; 

 its use, according to Willis, 375 ; de- 

 scription of the, 381 ; what portion of, 

 subservient to this or that faculty, un- 

 known, 446 



Circulation, influence of the nerves on, in 

 the capillaries, 408 ; excited by a sti- 

 mulus to the nerves, 409 ; can it be 

 repelled by the nerves? 417 



Columbus, his opinion on the use of the 

 circumvolutions of the brain, 369 



Conarium, see Pineal Gland. 



Congestion caused by the action of 

 nerves, 409 ; theories of, 410 ; various 

 phenomena caused by, 416 



Consensus of the nerves, inquiry into, 

 433 ; where it takes place, ib. ; when 

 in the ganglia, 435 



Consciousness, to what it belongs, 441 



Corpora striata, functions of their ascend- 

 ing and descending fibres, 375 



