Cruveilhier cites a case of a girl
of eleven who had absolutely no cerebellum, with the same
symptoms which are characteristic in such cases. There is also
recorded the history of a man who was deficient in the corpus
callosum; at the age of sixty-two, though of feeble intelligence,
he presented no signs of nervous disorder. Claude Bernard made an
autopsy on a woman who had no trace of olfactory lobes, and after
a minute inquiry into her life he found that her sense of smell
had been good despite her deficiency.
Buhring relates the history of a case somewhat analogous to
viability of anencephalous monsters. It was a bicephalous child
that lived thirty-two hours after he had ligated one of its
heads.
{footnote} The argument that the brain is not the sole organ of
the mind is in a measure substantiated by a wonderful case of a
decapitated rooster, reported from Michigan. A stroke of the
knife bad severed the larynx and removed the whole mass of the
cerebrum, leaving the inner aspect and base of the skull exposed.
The cerebrum was partly removed; the external auditory meatus was
preserved. Immediately after the decapitation the rooster was
left to its supposed death struggles, but it ran headless to the
barn, where it was secured and subsequently fed by pushing corn
down its esophagus, and allowing water to trickle into this tube
from the spout of an oil-can.
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