OF THE NERVES, 



NEUROLOGIA. 



" The knowledge, then, of what is termed the Economy of an Animal 

 Body is to be acquired only by an intimate acquaintance with the distri- 

 bution and uses of the nerves ; and this knowledge of the natural relations 

 leads directly to the comprehension of the signs of disturbed function, or the 

 symptoms of disease." Sir C. BELL. The Nervous System of the Human 

 Body. Preface, 3d edition. 



" At first this intricate network seems accidental ; neither arrangement 

 nor system is apparent ; but when the minute twig discovered by one anato- 

 mist in London is as surely found by another at Pavia, as two astronomers, 

 at different spots on the globe, trace in the heavens, with the same certainty, 

 the discoveries of Herschel, there can no longer be a doubt of the nerves 

 being distributed with regularity and system. 



" There is no such thing as a nerve deviating or being wanting (an occur- 

 rence frequent in the vascular system), without the loss of some essential 

 faculty." Introduction. 



