Note 60 — THE BASIS FOR SWEDENBORG’S STATEMENTS CONCERNING THE FUNCTIONS OF THE BRAIN.
Reading edition
See H. Boerhaave: ›Institutiones medicae›, Lugd. Bat. 1720, p. 253: ›Sensorium commune est pars cerebri, — — —, adeoque, ut apparet, medulla cerebri in capite;› and Boerhaave: ›Praelectiones academicae, (published by Haller), Göttingen, 1743, p. 451: ›Haec ergo sedes animae non est in pineali glandula, uti Cartesius voluit,—neque est in medulla spinali, neque est in cerebello, verum in fornicata medulla circumstante cavitatem ventriculorum cerebri.›