Identifier: illustratedlectu00robe (find matches)
Title: Illustrated lectures on ambulance work
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Roberts, R. Lawton
Subjects: Military Medicine Great Britain. Army Medicine, Military First aid in illness and injury Transportation, Military War First Aid Transportation of Patients
Publisher: London : Lewis
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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spinal cord or spinal marrow, and the nerves (Fig. 3),and also includes something else you probably have neverheard of, viz., the sympathetic nervous system. The brain is, as I have already explained, supported,enclosed, and protected from external violence by the bonesof the skull. It consists of two portions, one of which—the brain proper or the large brain—occupies by far thegreater part of the cavity of the skull, and is much largerthan the other—the little brain or small brain—which issituated in the hinder and lower part of the head. The largebrain is the seat of the intelligence, the emotions, and thewill: the small brain serves to regulate the movements ofthe body, maintaining the balance or equilibrium betweenthe two sides during our different actions. The brain, to-gether with its continuation—the spinal cord—which is en-closed and protected by the spine, forms the central portionof the nervous svstem, from which a number of white cords— C2 AMBULANCE LECTURES.
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Fig. 3.—The Nervous System.This figure shows the general arrangement of the nervous system—thebrain proper or large brain, 1, and. the small brain, 2, m the headj thespinal cord or spinal marrow-a continuation of the brain-along the back;and the nerves, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, etc., coursing from either brain or spinal cordto all parts of the body. THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. 21 the nerves—branch off (nine pairs from the brain, andthirty-one pairs from the spinal cord), and after dividing intosmaller and smaller cords and threads finally terminate inthe various voluntary muscles and the organs of the senses—ears, eyes, nose, tongue, and skin. Now the nerves servemuch the same purpose as telegraph wires. When we wishto perform any movement, as biting, walking, running, orlifting, orders are flashed along them by the will from thebrain to the different voluntary muscles that are required toact; if to the muscles of the head, along the nerves whichcourse directly from the brain itself through ape

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