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946 [Doc. 313.
SWEDENBORG’S WRITINGS.
The second copy consists of Part III of the Regnum Animale,
as published by the author in London in 1745. It is no. 77 of the
present document, and is incomplete.
Part IV. On the Brain. Of this part we have the beginning
of the rough draught, no. 76, p. 943.
THE OLD SERIES OF THE REGNUM ANIMALE.
Parts I and II, have been discussed above in the "New Series."
Part III, on the heart, the arteries, the veins, and the blood
had been previously treated in the Economia Regni Animalis, Vol. I,
no. 52, p. 915 , and also in no. 62, p. 929.
Parts IV and V, on the genital organs of males and females,
and the formation of the foetus in the uterus, constitute Part II of
no. 69, p. 935.
Part VI, on the organs of the external senses. A portion of
this was embodied by the author in Part III of the "New Series," as
far as published by him. Portions of the sections on hearing and sight,
and also on touch, constitute Part III of no. 69, p. 936. These same
subjects are also discussed in no. 64, p. 930, and in no. 67, p. 932.
Parts VII and VIII, on the cerebrum, and the interior sensoria,
the cerebellum, the medulla oblongata, and the medulla spinalis,
constitute no. 56, A, p. 920. Materials for these parts are contained
in no. 48, p. 914, and no. 54, p. 919.
Part IX, on the cortical and medullary substances of the cerebrum,
the nervous fibre, and the motive fibre of the body ; also on the
animal spirit. The contents of this part are scattered over various
writings of Swedenborg. The cortical substance of the brain is
discussed in Transaction II of the Economia, &c. (nos. 69 to 207),
see no. 52, p. 916 ; its medullary substance and the nervous fibre
are treated ofin no. 57, p. 925, and also in Transaction I of no. 48,
p. 914 ; the motive fibre in particular is discussed in no. 66, p. 930 ;
and the animal spirit in no. 63, p. 929, and also in Transaction III
of no. 48, p. 914.
Part X is entitled the organism of animal motion. This part
was not written out by the author in full ; but materials for it are
contained in no. 66, p. 930, and also in no. 74, p . 930, and like
wise in the chapter on the diaphragm in the published part of the
Regnum Animale, pp. 228 to 257.
Part XI
, on the affections, that is to say, diseases of the body.
This subject is treated at large in no. 56, p. 920, and also in no. 57,
p. 925.
Part XII, entitled "An introduction to rational psychology : namely
the doctrine of forms ; of order and degrees ; of series and society ;
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