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"The most accurate and often repeated Observation has taught us, that this Disease has happen'd as often as those Causes had preceeded, which have been able to cut off entirely or in great measure the Efflux of the Animal Spirits out of their Magazine the Brain, and hindring them from flowing into the Organs of the Senses and of voluntary Motions; and also their return from the said Organs into the Sensorium commune; whilst there remains a free egress and probably regress of the cerebellous Juice into the Heart, and the natural Organs of Respiration to that degree, as is in a manner sufficient to perform the said Functions."

— Boerhaave, Herman (1668-1738)

Author

Boerhaave, Herman (1668-1738)

Work Title

Boerhaave's aphorisms: concerning the knowledge and cure of diseases. Translated from the last edition printed in Latin at Leyden, 1715. With useful observations and explanations, by J. Delacoste, M.D

Place of Publication

London

Publisher

printed for B. Cowse, and W. Innys

Date

1715

Metaphor

"The most accurate and often repeated Observation has taught us, that this Disease has happen'd as often as those Causes had preceeded, which have been able to cut off entirely or in great measure the Efflux of the Animal Spirits out of their Magazine the Brain, and hindring them from flowing into the Organs of the Senses and of voluntary Motions; and also their return from the said Organs into the Sensorium commune; whilst there remains a free egress and probably regress of the cerebellous Juice into the Heart, and the natural Organs of Respiration to that degree, as is in a manner sufficient to perform the said Functions."

Metaphor in Context

1009. The most accurate and often repeated Observation has taught us, that this Disease has happen'd as often as those Causes had preceeded, which have been able to cut off entirely or in great measure the Efflux of the Animal Spirits out of their Magazine the Brain, and hindring them [End Page 264] from flowing into the Organs of the Senses and of voluntary Motions; and also their return from the said Organs into the Sensorium commune; whilst there remains a free egress and probably regress of the cerebellous Juice into the Heart, and the natural Organs of Respiration to that degree, as is in a manner sufficient to perform the said Functions.
(pp. 264-5)