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Show Abfceiles of the Brain, into which an Incifion being made, an Apofleme of the Brain was clifcovered, and the Right Ventricle diftended with a clear feroiis Liquor, comprefling the nervous Fibres of the Right fide of the Brain, A Policy crming from a briiii'cu M:dulla Spinalir. An Iiiflaiice of this kind of l‘alley. and intercepting the progrcfs of the Animal Liquor into the Right mediety of the Spinal Marrow, and Origens of the vertebral Nerves; whereupon enliied a refolution ofthem, belonging to the Right fide. A Palfey may alfo happen upon a wound of the Medulla Spinalis, binding or cutting the Origens of the vertebral Nerves; Whereupon the motion of the Animal Liquor and Spirits is checked, in reference to the nervous Trunks and Branches, ( propagated from the Spine) {0 that they grow loofe and flabby, wholly indifpofed for aaion. A Maid being {hot into her Back with the Bullet of a Piftol, wasimmed i. ately fenfible of a great pain, and defeét ofthc motion of her Limbs, a Refolution being tirade from the middle of her Loins to her lower parts, Which proceeded from the wound of the Origens of the vertebral Fibres, feared in one fide of the Spine. and froma Bullet. lodged in the Spinal Marrow, out- wardly comprefling the beginnings of the vertebral Nerves. The Patient heing dead, a round hole was found penetrating the M mli Iongiflimi and Sacrolumbaresg and afterward the Spine and its Marrow,w here- in was difcovered a Bullet, lodged in its fubflance, and comprefling the OriAr. ill mars of Blood is the (liiefanteCt- dent tank of a Rainy. gcns of the vertebral Nerves. Having difcourfed the continent caufes of a Pal-fey, illullrated by many inftances of feveral calés in this Difeafe 3 I \Aill now Treat (omewhat of its antecedent caufes, of which the chief is an ill mafs of Blood, generated by an ill Diet, either oftoo much Meat, or hard of digeftion, or the immode‘ rate drinking of Wine, and flrong Drink, and Tobacco, and Fumes, and Metallick Vapours, or vehement Paflions of the Mind, making great alterations in the vital Liquor, the Materia fitbflrara of the Sumo Nerwfw, which is highly dil'compofed by the Sex res mm naturaler, fame of which are very ofl‘enfive, producing a kind ofNm'co/i! in the Animal Spirits, defpoiling them [of their brisk elafiick nature, thereby rendring the Nerves Laxe and reolved. The Locnmotive Fatultya's ltiltiirti and abolillicd bv the $1.6th- Airinial'apitits. And the Locomotive power of the Limbs and Body is not only aboliihed, but alfo leffened in point of Impotency of motion, proceeding from a defcé‘t of Animal Spirits, not fully invigorating the Nerves; hence arifflha trembling of the Head and Limbs, fo that the motive Faculty is not able calily to fufiain the weight of the Limb, produced from the weaknefsofthc Nerves, rendring the Antagonil‘t Muicles, not able to balance each others Contraétions, and reduce the Limbs to a tonick motion, by containin g them in a firm fixed pofture 5 whereupon the weight on one fide, fo depreffcth Kim Limbs, and the Nixur ofthe Antagonifi Mufcles, that they are not able W makezgood their tonick Motion. 7h:- (fill-rt of m innit iit Motiuin. The Limbs grow difordered by various tremulous motions, derived fi'olii contrary principles, of the weight of the Limbs, and of weak nervous Fibres, which putting forth their utmolt Nixur, make different fucceflive 3%" rations, originally flowing from an ill Sumu Ner-wfiu, not iumgnaie with volatil and elaflzick Particles ‘, whereupon fluggilh Animal Spirits, being not endued with an expanfive nature, do not render the nervous Fibres Miiw kinds of a i‘alfuy'. plump and Riff. There are many kinds of a Palfey, (ometimes the genie is loft and thc Motion prefcrved 3 and other times the Motion is taken away, and [he Smfe renianent. The Book Ill. 0f the Pal/c}. I 197 If The fenfitive Faculty is abolifhed (and the Motive not difamfied)iiioiiciinii when the Sight, Hearing, Taft, and Smell, are highly difcompofed or taken ‘Ffijfi‘;",‘s"‘ away, as the Nerves apprOpriated to [lle‘lfldld Senfes, are obfliuéted by grofs firfifgffilfnd Recrements, or compreffed by extravalated Blood or Recrements, [hurting preferred. upthe fpaces of the Vifory, Auditory, Talling, or Smelling nervous Fiianienrs; whereupon the progrefs ofthe Animal Liquor is flopped, and the net- vous Fibres (configned to the fenfitive powers) rendred relaxed, and difabled to accompliih the operations of the ourward Fenles. _ The Motion is taken away by the paucity of the Animal Spirits, or rather $131552; 38 by the indifpofition of them, when they have loft their tenlive and elai'tick Siiiiiiiiiuhiiv quality, no: expanding the Interfiices oi the nervous Filaments 5 lo that they 0,0, "if," have not been {tiff and plump, and thereby made uncapable to execute the 51""‘5' , , . motive faculty of the Limbs. Some have imagined that the Senfc of Touching hath been abolifhed, Siriicciciiii'ni: and Motion at the fame time preferved entire; to which , this reply scare"? maybe given , That this Hypothefis wanteth a clear flaring, whether {flinging thele diffierent operations of Senfe and Motion be meant of the fame,oi- $23,333:" of diverfe parts; if it be undei‘l'tood ofthe lame, it is improbable, by rearfan that the (Mir is the organ of Touching, but not of Motion, which. is performed by carnous Fibres of the lVqucles, which are deficient in the Skin', only endued with nervous Fibrils (the inflrument of Touching) and when they have loft their Senfation, as it is fometimes found in Scorbutick Habits of Body, the Sticm Nerwoflw, and the Animal Spirits relating to the Coats, aredepraved; whereupon the cutaneous Nerves grow flabby and relaxed, andlofe their fenfe of Touching (as in a paralytick diflemper) and yet at the fame time the carnous Fibres of the Mufcles retain their Motion, as their Nerves are rendred Tenfe by the Spirits, and elaftickParticles ofAnimal Li. quot, invigorating the nervous Filaments, feared in the Mufcles, which is taken away in the Limbs, and molt parts of the Body, upon the compreflionof the fpinal Marrow by Blood, orferousRecrements, falling down, " from the Brain in an Apoplexy (whence arileth a Hemiplegia, a lofs or Motion in half the Body) or this defeél of Motion in the Mufclar'parts, may proceed from a wound in, or great blow upon the Spine, in which cafes the current of the Animal Liquor and Spirits is intercepted. . As to the Prognol'ticlts of this Difeafe, it is very hard to be cured, a; the $5,322,; Brain, Spinal Marrow, and Nerves, are afiectedg and as a refolutiionouonef WW Or more partsis made, which is removed With great difficulty, e pCCladle this Difeafe be a confequent of an Apoplexy, Carus, Lethargy, an "[16 like 5 AS the Palfey is caufed by a defluxion of ill Humors from the Brain }:0 the Medulla Spinalir ( where a Paraplegia is produced )‘ and from thence t e Offenfive Matter fometimes hath a recourfe to the Brain, as fome Learned Men Will have it, but it feemeth more agreeable to Reafon, that a new Al'OPlCX)' is made by a farther fiagnarion of Blood, or otherhgro 3b eerie; merits, ( comptefling the nervous Compage of the Brain) whicMare roug I into the Brain by the carotide Arteries, fo that the offenfiveh atter cor:- Filling the Mednlla Spinali'a, is not brought upward from t ence into t e " ilance of t eBrain. , . . _ . The Palfeylis lefs dangerous, when only the Senfe or Motion is takenh aen w greatter is danger the and Way, and work: where both are difafeaed, the Brain, or Medulla' Spinali: are obfirué‘ted or compreffed,which o ten proVcrh fatal to the Patient; A a flfiifi'fifime-«w Booklll ‘ Ava '1wE??? Of the Talfej. |