The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-03-02


I'm no part Of mans organism has
the study OF disease contributed
unre to our khoYledge of the body
Tran in the study lof the brain.
Disease writes out in plain print
s2le functions aya offices of an 9TH
erwfse mute ofgan.
In the great gland no tangible
secretion or Sxcretion is furnished
a. ~ study the mechanism of this
wonderful organ while in active
motion.
Try as we will, with scalPel and
microscope. into the inmost recesses
of the brain of /the savant or the
chimpanzee. no/hint of structure or
arrangements of cells gives us the
slightest clSe to any difference.
Fet this organ Is the seat of the
mind. In theNcomplicated structure
or the brain mind and matter COM
mingle. as in the sponge the two
great Kingdoms Of nature-animal
and vegetable-afe fused together.
Under guidance of Paul Broca the
Erench school of antomists and
Psychologists, IN the latter half of
the nineteenth century contributed
more to our knowledge of the brain
and its functions than in any like
period OF the woyid's history of sci
efrce.
When disease or accident has dis
turbed certain parts of the brain the
paralysis resulting has led to the
recognition of certain fixed and
definite locations, or brain centres
Than control motion, the power to
read. write and speak as we'll as the
ability to understand the meaning
OF words received through the
senses of hearing Or seeing. These
centres of intelligence in the brain,
and especially those centres that
receive impressions from the out
side, are all located, in the great
majority of human beings. in the
teft side Of the brain.
Let us look d little further into the
anatomy of the brain. Modren
anatomists have traced nerves from
their minutest ehdings in a muscle
up to their final termination in the
brain and have revealed to US that a
nerve starting from the left side of
the brain ends in certain muscle
ON tha right side of the body. In
other words. the right side of the
body gets its nerve supply from the
eeft side Of the brain and vice versa
Psychologists have demonstrated tho
Junction Of nerves to be the carry
ing OF nerve force. Finally patha-
iogista have shown that destruction,
y OK accident or disease. OF certain
carts OF the right Or left brain
causes paralysis in that part Of the
body opposite to the injured brain.
The centres Of intelligence, such
as language, recognition of the
meaning Of spoken and written
words. exists in both the right and
left brain in the young. and If it has
been proved that when such a CEN
tre is destroyed in the left brain of
a child or young adult the centre on
the right can become educated and
perform the same offices as the de-
stroyed centre. T his only applies
% the child or young adult, for in
aater life. when the centre has been
educated and then destroyed, its
fellow on the other side will never
take up the functions of the disabled
one. This Is only another instance
OF the duality, and a very brief
duality (for 1t is confined to the
Eoung) Of the brain, and we are yet
a long way from explaining why
mature Drefers the education of one
hroie OF the brain to the other, and
hanc; that preference leans most
safe glyi to the left brain.
"AnyBpRratively recent observa-
aid Mora?n the preference given by
own again. right side of our bod
And Mora,:oved that In right
to g: cons the motor and in
ust as th~ centres are located in the
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