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.

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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.

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    nicest sensibility in those parts: he died, and on dissection, the posterior roots were found in a healthy state, whilst the anterior, evi- dently diseased, had been robbed of their medullary substance, and consisted of nothing- more than their outward coat. Nerves impart sensibility and motion to our organs only because they proceed from the spinal marrow; if they happen to be sepa- rated from it by a wound, or by any other cause, immobility and insensibility in the parts are the unavoidable consequences. It then became interesting to ascertain whether the spinal marrow itself was not divided into two halves,—the one intended for motion, the other for sensibility. In physiological researches, experience often contradicts speculations, when they are merely