General Anatomy, Applied to Physiology and Medicine, Vol. 1 (of 3)

by Xavier Bichat

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FIRST CLASS.—functions relative to the individual.

ORDER FIRST.—Functions of Animal Life.

Genus I. Sensations.
1st. Of the general sensations, or feeling,		external.
		internal.
2d. Of particular sensations		Hearing.
		Seeing.
		Smelling.
		Tasting
		Feeling.
3d. Of pleasure and of pain.

Genus II. Cerebral Functions.
1st. Relative to sensation		Of perception.
		Of imagination.
		Of memory.
2d. Relative to the understanding		Of attention.
		Of the ideas.
		Of the judgment.
		Of the reasoning faculty, &c.
3d. Relative to motion	Of the will, which is determined by	the judgment.	Of the opposition of these two causes.
		the passions
4th. Connexion of the cerebral functions with life			Of concussion.
			Of apoplexy, &c.

Genus III. Locomotion.
1st. Of the immoveable attitudes		on the feet Standing.
		on the knees.
		on the pelvis.
		on the head, &c. &c.
		—Prostration.
2d. Motion	Of the superior extremities.	Prepulsion.
		Repulsion.
		Diduction.
		Pressure.
		Elevation, &c.
	Of the inferior extremities.	Walking.
		Running.
		Leaping.
	Of the trunk.	Support, raising weights.
	Of the whole body.	Swimming.
	Of gesture considered as an auxiliary to the voice.	1st. Gestures of the face.
		2d. Gestures of the head in general.
		3d. Gestures of the superior extremities.

Genus IV. Voice.
1st. Of the voice of brutes	Dumbness.
2d. Of speech.	Of stuttering.
	Of lisping, &c.
3d. Of singing	true.
	false.
4th. Of declamation.

Genus V. Nervous transmission.
1st. Transmission to the brain of sensations	general.
	particular.
2d. Transmission of motion	to the locomotive organs.
	to the vocal organs.
3d. Mode of transmission.

OF THE INTERMISSION OF THE FUNCTIONS OF ANIMAL LIFE.

Sleep.
1st. natural.	partial	of the senses.
		of the brain ... Of sympathetic sleep.
		of the muscles.
	general.
2d. unnatural.
3d. Dreams and somnambulism.