Object Lessons on the Human Body a Transcript of Lessons Given in the Primary Department of School No. 49, New York City - Softcover
Synopsis
Excerpt: ...and gray substance, which in the large brain is so folded and wrinkled that it looks like the meat of an English walnut; in the little brain it is so arranged that it resembles a tree, and is called arbor vitæ, tree of life. The mind does its thinking through the large brain, and controls its muscles through the little brain. A drunken man can not walk straight because alcohol has hurt the little brain; he can not think straight because it has poisoned the large brain. 68 THE BRAIN AND THE SPINAL CORD. C, the large brain (cerebrum). B, the small brain (cerebellum). S, a portion of the spinal cord. QUESTIONS ON THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. Where is your brain?
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