Identifier: someapostlesofph00stir (find matches)
Title: Some apostles of physiology : being an account of their lives and labours, labours that have contributed to the advancement of the healing art as well as to the prevention of disease
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Stirling, William, 1851-1932
Subjects: Physiology Physiologists Physiology
Publisher: London : Priv. print. by Waterlow and sons limited
Contributing Library: West Virginia University Libraries
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the substanceof the brain just at the entrance to its ventricles, and in this situation these arteries havea large number of minute pores or holes through which the more subtle particles of theblood can flow into this gland, but which are so narrow as that they prevent the passagethrough them of grosser particles. (He gives a remarkable figure of the straight courseof the arteries to the gland.) . . . The arteries do not end there, but, being gatheredtogether there once again, they ascend straight upward and join the great vessel which islike a Euripus and which bathes the outer surface of the brain. (L1 Homme p. 344.) The pineal gland is thus the primary reservoir or bureau, theventricles secondary reservoirs, of the animal spirits which flow fromthe brain along the tubular nerves, thus causing movements, thespirits themselves being generated from the innate heat of the heart.The pineal gland is also the seat of the rational soul. It is the seatof imagination and of common sensation.
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FORMATION OF INVERTED IMAGE OF ANEXTERNAL OBJECT IN THE RETINA. FIGURE SHOWING HOW THE IMPRESSION OF THE IMAGE OF AN EXTERNAL OBJECT ON THE RETINA REACHED THE PINEAL GLAND. Passing over his many disputations and controversies, we cometo the invitation in 1648 of that remarkable woman, Queen Christina,daughter of Gustavus Adolphus, the pious and valiant King ofSweden, who was killed at Lutzen in 1632—we have alreadyreferred to her residence in Rome and her relations to Borelli—tohim to reside in Stockholm that she might learn his philosophy directfrom himself. This remarkable lady required his attendance at fivea.m.—a very different hour from that usually selected by Descartes foractive study, who usually lay in bed the better part of the forenoonmeditating and writing. He died of pneumonia on February lltb,1650, ret. 54. ( 20 ) FRANCIS GLISSON. 1597-1677 (aet. 80). GLISSON was born at Rampisham, in Dorsetshire, just one yearafter Descartes, studied medicine and graduated at Camb

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