The cerebellum : its relation to spatial orientation and to locomotion being the Boyle lecture for 1905 delivered before the Junior Scientific Society of the University of Oxford, Harold Savage, Esq., president, in the chair / by Victor Horsley.

  • Victor Horsley
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1905
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Credit: The cerebellum : its relation to spatial orientation and to locomotion being the Boyle lecture for 1905 delivered before the Junior Scientific Society of the University of Oxford, Harold Savage, Esq., president, in the chair / by Victor Horsley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    historian of the Royal Society, was correct when exposing the way in. which Wren was plagiarised, he stated that :—‘‘ He was the “first Author of the noble Anatomical experiment of injecting Liquors “into the Veins of Animals. An Experiment now vulgarly known but “long since exhibited to the Meetings at Oxford, and thence carried ‘““by some Germans and published abroad.” Lower was a very original thinker, and no doubt an invaluable AccictanitarOesucheas maim as sVVillis nes too. worked. in Christ: Church, but was expelled, as he tells Boyle in one of his letters, from that College because he would not take orders. Another of his exceedingly interesting letters to Boyle very correctly gives the state of knowledge in Oxford at the Restoration on the subject of the cerebellum, as follows :— setter tron. lf. lsower to. Vir: Boyle. “¢ CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD, “January 15, O61. ‘* HONOURED SIR, ‘““] received your letter, and should have wrote to you sooner but that the doctor’* (that is, Dr. Willis) “was not at leisure till of late to make those dissections of the brain, which he hoped ; but at length we have had the opportunity of cutting up several, and the doctor, finding most parts of the brain imperfectly described, intends to make a whole new draught thereof, with the several uses of the distinct parts, according to his own fancy, seeing few authors speak any thing considerable of it; so that at present I shall suspend my thoughts which I had of sending you a relation of the discourse we had in the several dissections, and only tell you that, according to his opinion of the use of the cerebellum for involuntary motion, he shewed me several times the nerves (which authors call the sixth
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