LECTURES

ON

THE NERVOUS SYSTEM

AND ITS

DISEASES

BY MARSHALL HALL, M.D. F.R.S.

L. AND E.

LECTURER ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE, ETC. ETC.

LONDON:

SHERWOOD, GILBERT, AND PIPER,

PATERNOSTER ROW.

MDCCCXXXVI.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE following Notes of Lectures delivered in the Summer of 1835,- for I wish them to be viewed but as notes, present the outline of an investigation in which I have been for some time engaged. There are many subjects pointed out in it, requiring renewed anatomical, experimental, clinical, and historical research; and to these I propose to devote my future studies. How interesting and valuable would a series of cases be, taken in the rigid spirit of truth, and with a continual reference to the divisions of the nervous system, which I have proposed!

Like the scientific traveller, I have sketched my route, to which I shall adhere, or from which I shall deviate, according as new views may present themselves, and direct my further progress. I may truly say," Non scribo hoc temere: quo minus familiaris sum, hoc sum ad investigandum curiosior."-Cic. Ep. ad Fam.