A memoir on some recent discoveries relative to the functions of the nervous system : read before the Academie des sciences at Paris, at the public sitting of the 22d of June, 1823 / by F. Magendie.

Date:
1828
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Credit: A memoir on some recent discoveries relative to the functions of the nervous system : read before the Academie des sciences at Paris, at the public sitting of the 22d of June, 1823 / by F. Magendie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    nious and beautiful experiments of Lorry and Legallois, placed beyond the possibility of a doubt, is, that the spinal marrow actually is the most useful part of the nervous system. The spinal cord contains the principal seat of sensibility, and the source from which all our motions are derived. In this organ also resides that irresistible instinct which compels us to breathe; so that, strictly speaking, life might be continued without the brain and cere- bellum ; but life cannot possibly be protracted for a single moment without the spinal mar- row. The following statement contains new facts, which, by recent discoveries, are superadded to the too few important ones we are already possessed of. For one of the most interesting of these discoveries, the Profession is indebted to a