The nervous system, anatomical and physiological : in which the functions of the various parts of the brain are for the first time assigned: and to which is prefixed some account of the author's earliest discoveries, of which the more recent doctrine of Bell, Magendi, etc. is shown to be one.

  • Alexander Walker
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1834
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Credit: The nervous system, anatomical and physiological : in which the functions of the various parts of the brain are for the first time assigned: and to which is prefixed some account of the author's earliest discoveries, of which the more recent doctrine of Bell, Magendi, etc. is shown to be one. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    so far even as the ascription of distinct func- tions—sensation and volition, to distinct co- lumns and nerves, is concerned. Here then, (seeing that the doctrines of Sir C. Bell's first pamphlet amount to nothing, and were abandoned by himself) comes the first of the more important points at present in question —the assignment of distinct functions to dis- tinct parts. Last Statement of the Writer's Doctrine in 1815. The writer will first, therefore, give some further view of his own statements in the words of his contest with Dr. Leach in 1815, and will next give those of Sir C. Bell in 1821, or later. In the principal Paper on this subject which was communicated, under the circumstances alluded to, to Dr. Thomson's Annals of Phi- losophy, of which the title was, Sketch of a General Theory of the Intellectual Functions of Man and Animals, given in reply to Drs. Cross and Leach, and which appeared in the Num- ber for August, 1815, the writer wrote as fol- lows :— In reply to my statement, that the anterior of the nervous fasciculi [bundles] which join the spinal marrow are not nerves of sensation, nor the posterior, nerves of volition, Dr. Leach, instead of proving my inaccuracy, places upon record a most astonishing specimen of his own !—Dr. Leach says, ' The two roots of nerves of each
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