Sensation and pain : A lecture delivered before the New York Academy of Sciences, March 21st, 1881; being one of the public course for 1880-81 / by Charles Fayette Taylor.
- Charles Fayette Taylor
- Date:
- 1881
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sensation and pain : A lecture delivered before the New York Academy of Sciences, March 21st, 1881; being one of the public course for 1880-81 / by Charles Fayette Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![Fig. 2. Nervous Systein of the Ascidian. [From Carpenter's Mental Physiology.] The next figure (Fig. 2) represents the nervous system of the Ascidian. There is a single nerve- centre with two or three pairs of nerves communi- cating with the mouth, vent and body of the crea- ture. Now if these nerve-tracts be straightened out, we should have an arrangement of the nervous system almost as simple as the ideal one represented in figure 1. Here (Fig. 3) are several nerve-cells, highly mag- nified, and their intimate relations through connect- ing fibres are also to be seen. It is this arrange- ment of sensitive nerves to carry an impulse inward, and of nerve-centres to receive and evolve energy,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21080173_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
