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INDEX TO PROCHASKA 



Lancisi, where sensation and motion 



centered, by, 577 

 Lectures, Croonian, 415 

 LiNNiEus, case of, referred to, 444 



Malpighi, his opinion on the anatomy, 

 &c., of the brain, 374, 375, 389 



Mammae, erection of the papillae of the, 

 explained, 416 



Martini on the susceptibility of ten- 

 dons, 394 



Mayow, his opinion on the animal 

 spirits, 377 



Meckel quoted, 377-8 



Memory, the nature of, 441 



Menses, the influence of the nerves on 

 the flow of, 415 ; not dependent on 

 congestion, ib. ; caused by vis nervosa, 

 416 



Metzger quoted, 379; his promised 

 inquiries into the functions of the 

 brain, 447 



Meyer, where the mental faculties 

 located, by, 377 



Mind, three distinct faculties of the, 

 recognised by Plato, 365 ; whether it 

 alone thinks, 442; faculties of, located 

 in the brain, 374 ; influenced by vary- 

 ing states of the brain, 442 



Movements, what properly termed ani- 

 mal, 448-9 ; automatic, ib. 



Murray, his anatomy of the infundi- 

 bulum, 373 ; on the morbid sensi- 

 bility of bones, 394 



Muscles, their irritability dependent on 

 the nerves, 400 ; theory of their con- 

 traction, 413; the automatic, 448 



Muscular action, the two kinds of, 448 ; 

 theory of, 413 



Musgrave, theories of, as to secretion, 

 419 ; as to animal heat, 422 



Nates, see Tubercula Quadrigemina. 



Needham, quoted, 386 



Nerves, the, Galen's doubts as to their 

 function in transmitting the animal 

 spirits, 368 ; unity and use of the 

 loops of, according to Willis and 

 others, 376, 377; their origin, &c., 

 described, 382 ; their medulla not 

 wholly vascular, 389; vis nervosa 

 exists in, independently of the brain, 

 397 — 402 ; their action in sensation 

 and motion, 406; on what their pro- 

 perty of receiving and transmitting 

 impressions depends, 407 ; their oflSce 

 as respects the brain and muscles, 407, 

 408 ; their action on the vessels and 

 their fluids, 408—412; have they the 

 property of repelling fluids ? 417 ; their 



Nerves (continued) 

 influence in secretion, 418 — 421 ; do 

 they exert any influence in the produc- 

 tion of animal heat ? 421 — 423 ; how 

 far necessary to nutrition, 423 — 428 ; 

 consensus of, probably not wholly in 

 the sensorium commune, 435 



Nervous system, what parts it includes, 

 381 ; bibliography of its anatomy, 383 

 note; the author's threefold division 

 of, 383 ; comparative anatomy of, 384 ; 

 in some animals, does not exist, 386 ; 

 not always necessary to sensation and 

 animal motion, 388 



Newton on the nervous fluid, 422 



NucK quoted, 377 



Nutrition, how effected, 423—428 ; ac- 

 tion of the nisus formativus in, 426 



Opium, experiments by Whytt with, 



396 

 Otto Horstius, 373 



Parencephalis, a term of Galen, 367 



Passions, the, 441 



Penis, its erection explained, 416 



Perception, its nature, 440 ; is a com- 

 pelled act, 441 



PiccoLHOMiNEus quotcd, 370 



Pineal gland, its use according to Galen 

 and Willis, 368, 376 



Pituitary gland, its use according to 

 LowER,WiLLis, Haller,&c., 373,374 



Plato, recognised three distinct faculties 

 of the mind, 365 ; his opinion on the 

 brain, 375 



Platner, his opinion on the union of 

 body and mind, 445, 449 



Polypes, how feel and move without a 

 nervous system, 387 ; their irritability 

 produced by other mechanism than 

 that of muscles, 414 



Preservation, the, of the individual, the 

 general law of reflexion of impres- 

 sions, 430 



Recollection, its nature, 441 



Reflexion,of impressions, in the sensorium 

 commune, described, 430 ; general law 

 of, ib. ; illustration of, 431 ; indepen- 

 dent of mind or consciousness, 432 ; 

 in the ganglia, 438 



RiOLANUs, the son, defends the doc- 

 trines of Galen, 371 



RuYscH, tries to prove cortex of the brain 

 not glandular, 377 



Schneider, proves that the ventricles 

 of the brain are not cloacae, 372 ; his 

 work, ' De Catarrhis.' quoted, 372 



