Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Catholic Educational Review, Vol. 13
One of the functions of the brain is to supply the basis and the organs for mental life, but this is only one of its functions and apparently one of its latest functions when the matter is viewed from a phylogenetic standpoint. The cerebrum is the dominant portion of the cerebro spinal system in man and mammals and as such it continues to minister to all the needs of the growing organism. It controls the quality and quantity of the various secretions; it regulates the temperature of the body; it governs the respiration; it determines the heart rate; the blood pressure and the distribution of the blood supply; it controls the manufacture of the various enzymes, the digestion of food and the elimination of waste products, and it presides over the nutrition and growth of all parts of the body. Receiving through its afferent nerves the results of the play of sensory stimuli from the end organs of sense, the brain determines the appropriate reactions of the organism so as to avoid danger and to pursue the things that are necessary for life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
