Experimental researches applied to physiology and pathology / By e. Brown-Séquard.

  • Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard
Date:
1853
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    EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHES APPLIED TO PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY. BY E. BROWN-SEQUARD, M. D., OF PARIS.* [Reprinted from the Medical Examiner for August, 1852.] I.—ON THE SOURCE OF THE VITAL PROPERTIES. I think that every tissue possesses its vital properties, in con- sequence of its peculiar organization, and that in a completely developed animal, nutrition is the source of the vital properties, inasmuch as it is the cause of the maintenance of organization. I will try to prove the correctness of my opinion, by the fol- lowing remarks on some of the vital properties of the spinal cord, the nerves, and the muscles. [* The paper which we have the pleasure of presenting to our readers from Dr. Brown-Sequard, is a resume of many researches made by the author, a part of which only have hitherto been published in any of the foreign journals. The conclusions arrived at are the result of eight years exclusive devotion to the experiments upon which they are based.—Eds. Ex.]