. The brain as an organ of mind. middle line of thebody) is just that mode of sensibility in which no discrimination isever made between the impressions coming from the two sides. Nosort of disturbance or embarrassment would therefore seem likelyto be produced from the fact that impressions of smell from theright nostril, are brought into relation in the corresponding Cere-bral Hemisphere with gustatory, visual, auditory, and tactile im-pressions emanating from the left side of the body, and vice versa. Chap. XXV.] PHRENOLOGY : OLD AND NEW. 5B7 Owing to the protected position of the tip of the
. The brain as an organ of mind. middle line of thebody) is just that mode of sensibility in which no discrimination isever made between the impressions coming from the two sides. Nosort of disturbance or embarrassment would therefore seem likelyto be produced from the fact that impressions of smell from theright nostril, are brought into relation in the corresponding Cere-bral Hemisphere with gustatory, visual, auditory, and tactile im-pressions emanating from the left side of the body, and vice versa. Chap. XXV.] PHRENOLOGY : OLD AND NEW. 5B7 Owing to the protected position of the tip of theTemporal Lobe, accurate limitation of lesions in this situa-tion was found to be almost impossible. Hence, thoughthe centre for Taste is believed by Ferrier to be imme-diately contiguous with that for Smell, viz., in the lowerpart of the middle temporo-sphenoidal convolution, atthe tip of the Temporal Lobe, he is unable to speakwith so much certainty as to this localization. Theabolition of taste, he says, *always coincided with. FiQ. 176.—Brain of Monkey, showing shaded area in Temporal Lobe, the destruc-tion of which caused loss of Smell on the same side, and loss of Taste on theopijosite side. (Ferrier.) destruction of regions situated in close relation to thesubiculum ; whilst in favour of the part above definedbeing the centre for Taste, he remarks that irritation ofthis portion of the middle temporal convolution leads tomovements of the lips, tongue, and cheek pouches, whichhe regards as reflex movements consequent on the ex-citation of the gustatory sensation. Destruction of thisregion on one side produced temporary loss or impair-ment of Taste on the opposite side of the tongue; whilstthe loss of this sense became complete, double, and per- 533 PHRENOLOGY: OLD AND NEW. manent, when the same part was destroyed on bothsides.* Destruction of the whole of the tip of one TemporalLobe, was found to produce a temporary loss of Smell onthe same side and loss of Taste on the o
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