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Emanuel Swedenborg's Investigations in Natural Science and the Basis for His Statements Concerning the Functions of the Brain

Ramström, Martin, 1861-1930· 5 chapters· 17,806 words

Reprinted from the festival publication of the University of Uppsala on the occasion of the bicentenary of the Royal Society of Sciences of Uppsala and of the unveiling of the sarcophagus of Emanuel Swedenborg in the cathedral of Uppsala.

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1. Part 1

Reprinted from the festival publication of the University of Uppsala on the occasion of the bicentenary of the Royal Society of Sciences of Uppsala and of the unveiling of the s...

2. Part 2

On the basis of this connection he ascribed to the ›_Cerebellula_› a very important rôle in the activity of the brain. In the first place they received, through the external sen...

3. Part 3

And in another place he says: ›If the cerebrum is either inflamed or obstructed, or flaccid, or injured otherwise, the intellectual faculty is unsettled; as in paralysis, melanc...

4. Part 4

In these regions of the cerebral medulla, especially in the highest, VIEUSSENS considered that the soul’s activity had its seat: with the help of ›spiritus animalis› the soul he...

5. Part 5

[21] Eman. Swedbergs Assess. i Kongl. Bergz Coll. Försök At finna Östra och Westra Lengden igen igenom Månan, Som Til the Lärdas ompröfwande framstelles. Upsala, 1718. See ALFR....