Abstract

CLAUDE BERNARD.BRAIN.of the Sciences.des Deux Mondea, by 0. C. SAWYU.J[Translatedthe 15th of MarchNo.The tions serve ted to the thoughtfirst of life as theircare inof thephysiology different circulation also, in the the brain. Thus,was organs to the seat ofto localize of digestionheart,the body, wasinstrument. thus, placed organ, and of theattribuand in respect ofto the lungs; wasstomach,intelligence However,to this last reservations, expression be the function. promotors understood are wholly mechanical respect. tion for nerves of the theirit has been deemed not to admit that intellectual pure who explanations upon expressed the spirits to spread the ideas in animated of the has and and should of the moral simple be the himself Galen brain,necessary to make the metaphysical faculties of ranked phenomena physical clearly upon he by the gives means in of order in the among he very of could cerebral the well life and this them the to to this allows it and of forma-manifestation, Descartes, of modern dependent laws, Adopting animal office, throughout thatphysiology,because generalmachine, impulsion and distinct brain, faculty pineal emanate the slightestbear to each one of the parts the its special activity. Yet, above physiological the soul, which its seat, according directs are the The brain the