A new illustrated hand-book of phrenology, physiology and physiognomy (1878)
Wells, R. B. D · London, H. Vickers · leaf 58
are joined together by fibresfrom one hemisphere to the other, forming what is called 35 the corpus callosum, a long broad white band, which formsthe bond of union between the hemispheres. The corpuscallosum is composed mostly of nerves, and its object is tobring all the parts of the brain and mind… … Fig. 26.—Brain Exposed. There is also existing between the brain and the skull aliquid, usually called the subarachnoid fluid. This fluidis for the purpose of preventing the brain from being injuredwhen a person is in the act of jumping, &c., so as to preventconcussions and injury to the brain.…
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