Wherefore the brain must be looked upon as the universal and general sensory and at the same time as the universal and general motory organ of the body and finally as the universal and general laboratory of the animal spirits and the blood or of the essential juices of life.
Emanuel Swedenborg (1887). “The Brain, Considered Anatomically, Physiologically and Philosophically: The pituitary gland, the cerebellum and the medulla oblongata”
