Narrative of the discoveries of Sir Charles Bell in the nervous system / by Alexander Shaw.

Date:
1839
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Credit: Narrative of the discoveries of Sir Charles Bell in the nervous system / by Alexander Shaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION. PH EVA LENT MISTATEMENTS CONCERNING TIIE ORIGIN OF TIIE DISCOVERIES IN THE NERVOUS SYSTEM DESCRIBED. The following pages are intended to give a history of the recent discoveries in the Nervous System. They present a view of the general principle on which the late improvements in this department of physiology have been founded; and also shew in how far we are indebted to different physiologists for propounding and confirming that principle. That such a history should he required at the pre- sent time, will perhaps appear remarkable. But I am impressed with the conviction, that, whoever takes the trouble to peruse these pages, will admit, that the task I am about to enter upon was not uncalled for; and that it devolved upon me to undertake it. The immediate cause of my entering on the subject has been, that, in different publications of general and extensive circulation, statements altogether unfounded, and obviously proceeding from one common source, nave recently been appearing with remarkable fre- quency, concerning the views originally expressed by B