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" In dextrum ventriculum dicitur sinister aperire, qua parte duo
" plexus choroidei conveniunt, inter thalamos opticos, fornicem ct
" plexum choroideum, ut unicum ventriculum esse dudum dictum sit.
" Scepiusflatu earn viam relegit fGunz, JVinslow, Tarin, Marchett,
Bartltolin.J Then follows the quotation," leniter tamen impulsu flatu,"
&c. Haller is here shewing us, in the first place, how many cele-
brated Anatomists have mentioned this communication, and at the
same time his own description is particularly accurate and distinct;
then he adds, that at the same time from his own experience, since it
took some force of blowing to demonstrate the communication, he
was inclined to believe that something is ruptured when we blow so
hard as tQ make the air rise in the opposite Ventricle.
Thus we see that the present day is the second asra of this dispute;
that it was freely canvassed formerly; and if Dr. Monro had been as
anxious to prove the point of Anatomy, as to establish his own merit
as a discoverer, lie had only to say, that he adhered to the opinion of
the best ancient and modern authors, as Vicq. d'Azyr, Winslow,
Gunz, Marchett, Cowper, Ridley, Bartholin, Vieussens, Vesalius,
&c.
The truth is that, as I have already observed, the communication
betwixt the Ventricles was among the first truths established by the
studies of the older Physicians. It was upon this that their doctrines
of the formation of the spirits in the Ventricles, and their vaccillating
freely through them and round the Pineal Gland, were founded:
while in the same degree it gave support to the opinions of those
who supposed that the fluids of the cavities of the-Brain were drained
off into the Infundibulum; for some alleged that the Infundibulum
conveyed the excremcntitious fluids into the nose, by the Pituitary
Gland; others alleged that it was conveyed to the palate; others by
the circular sinus, into the great veins. Accordingly there is scarcely a
" In dextrum ventriculum dicitur sinister aperire, qua parte duo
" plexus choroidei conveniunt, inter thalamos opticos, fornicem ct
" plexum choroideum, ut unicum ventriculum esse dudum dictum sit.
" Scepiusflatu earn viam relegit fGunz, JVinslow, Tarin, Marchett,
Bartltolin.J Then follows the quotation," leniter tamen impulsu flatu,"
&c. Haller is here shewing us, in the first place, how many cele-
brated Anatomists have mentioned this communication, and at the
same time his own description is particularly accurate and distinct;
then he adds, that at the same time from his own experience, since it
took some force of blowing to demonstrate the communication, he
was inclined to believe that something is ruptured when we blow so
hard as tQ make the air rise in the opposite Ventricle.
Thus we see that the present day is the second asra of this dispute;
that it was freely canvassed formerly; and if Dr. Monro had been as
anxious to prove the point of Anatomy, as to establish his own merit
as a discoverer, lie had only to say, that he adhered to the opinion of
the best ancient and modern authors, as Vicq. d'Azyr, Winslow,
Gunz, Marchett, Cowper, Ridley, Bartholin, Vieussens, Vesalius,
&c.
The truth is that, as I have already observed, the communication
betwixt the Ventricles was among the first truths established by the
studies of the older Physicians. It was upon this that their doctrines
of the formation of the spirits in the Ventricles, and their vaccillating
freely through them and round the Pineal Gland, were founded:
while in the same degree it gave support to the opinions of those
who supposed that the fluids of the cavities of the-Brain were drained
off into the Infundibulum; for some alleged that the Infundibulum
conveyed the excremcntitious fluids into the nose, by the Pituitary
Gland; others alleged that it was conveyed to the palate; others by
the circular sinus, into the great veins. Accordingly there is scarcely a