Nervi, Boteswayne.
Musculi, Saylors.
“There are similar comparisons,” says Sir George Paget, who analysed these lectures, and published an account of the manuscript, “of the brain with a military commander, the leader of an orchestra, an architect, and the prius motor, and of the nerves and muscles with the respective subordinate officers.”
His treatise on the movement of the blood must have been passing through the press at the time he gave these lectures, and the subject of the circulation must therefore have been uppermost in his mind. He compares the heart to the other organs thus:—
An WH. potius.
Cor, imperator, Rex. [Whether the heart should not rather be considered as the Emperor or King,]
Cerebrum, Judex, Serjeant-Major, praepositi [whilst the brain is the judge, serjeant-major, or monitor].