Nerves / by David Fraser Harris.

  • David Fraser Fraser-Harris
Date:
[1913]
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Credit: Nerves / by David Fraser Harris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    process in one part of the nervous system may be conducted through the nervous channels and may operate in other parts of the nervous system. . . . Now it seems impossible to get the physiologists of the laboratory . . . who are chiefly concerned with the organs rather than with the organism, to consider this conception seriously, and on its merits. If they occasionally refer to it, it is only to put it aside contemptuously as a naive survival from the Dark Ages. Yet those who are in the habit of dealing with the problems of the organism as a whole, the physician and the psychologist, constantly make use of this conception, for they find it impossible to make progress in the under¬ standing of their problems without it. That fact gives the conception a claim to a more serious consideration than it has commonly received from the physiologists.” Dr. MacDougall has done great service to neurology by rendering the conception of nerve-energy as concrete as possible; it might be best to give his own words. “ I think that for the present it may be best conceived as a fluid, and I propose that this fluid shall be called neurin. Just as the two- fluid theory of heat, the two-fluid theory of
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