. Human physiology (Volume 1) . la imaginativa, cellula estimativa seu cogitativa, acellula memorativa, and a cellularationalis. A head by LudovicoDolci exhibits a similar arrange-ment. (Fig. 59.)a The celebrated Dr. Thomas Wil-lis, in 1681, asserted, that the cor-pora striata are the seat of percep-tion ; the medullary part of the brainthat of memory and imagination ;the corpus callosum that of reflec-tion : and the cerebellum, accordingto him, furnished the vital spiritsnecessary for the involuntary It would appear, too, thatSwedenborg, half a century beforethe promulgation of Ga
. Human physiology (Volume 1) . la imaginativa, cellula estimativa seu cogitativa, acellula memorativa, and a cellularationalis. A head by LudovicoDolci exhibits a similar arrange-ment. (Fig. 59.)a The celebrated Dr. Thomas Wil-lis, in 1681, asserted, that the cor-pora striata are the seat of percep-tion ; the medullary part of the brainthat of memory and imagination ;the corpus callosum that of reflec-tion : and the cerebellum, accordingto him, furnished the vital spiritsnecessary for the involuntary It would appear, too, thatSwedenborg, half a century beforethe promulgation of Galls theory,maintained the doctrine, that everyman is born with a disposition to all sorts of evil, which must be * See Burtons Anatomy of Melancholy, 11th edit. i. 32, Lond. 1813. Also, Philosophica, lib. ix. cap. 40, Basil. 1508, cited by Dr. John Redman Coxe, inDunglisons American Medical Intelligencer, i. 58, Philad. 1838. b Gall, Sur les Fonctions du Cerveau, ii. 350, Paris, 1835. Old Phrenological Head. Fig. Head by Dolci, 1502. PHRENOLOGY. 205 checked by education, and as far as possible rooted out; and thatthe degree of success or of failure in this respect would be indi-cated by the shape of the skull. The peculiar distinctions ofman, he argued, will and the understanding, have their seats inthe brain, which is excited by the fleeting desires of the will, andthe ideas of the intellect. Near the various spots where theseirritations produce their effects, this or that part of the brain iscalled into a greater or less degree of activity, and forms alongwith itself corresponding parts of the This view, thatexercise of the cerebral organs occasions their development inbulk, and want of due exercise their decrease, is now maintainedby many phrenologists, but denied by others. The above examples are sufficient to show, that the attempt toassign faculties to different parts of the brain, and, consequently,the belief, that the brain consists of a pl
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