Pathology of the Brain and the Nervous System

not into the current, as an abandoned child, do we cast it away. Moreover, a certain other inquiry, undertaken concerning scurvy, undergoes the same turns of fortune, insofar as it is very much related to the spasmodic doctrine, rests upon the same hypothesis, and is, as it were, its appendix. Indeed, if those strangers who may happen upon these premature and, as it were, abortive births, shall, out of their humanity, take care to nourish and take them up, a more legitimate offspring will at length succeed, which may more happily follow the womb from which it is born; and, mindful of its parent, namely the human soul, may more clearly reflect both its image and its nature; at least (which I fear has happened to this Pathology) it may not so describe the diseases of the brain that it falls into their lot and seems to have increased their number.