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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    muscles of his features, and those connected with the organs of speech. At times he was allowed to walk backward, whilst his progress forward became totally impossible; he then would resort to this mode of progression to reach the objects he had in view. This state lasted four calendar months, and terminated most successfully. A few grains of a sub- stance which chemistry has lately discovered (the sulphate of quinine), sufficed to confine his motions to the immediate dictates of his will. It may then be correct to admit, that the faculty of volition is perfectly distinct from that faculty by which our motions are di- rected and classified into regular acts. Such is the only consequence I wished to infer from the fact I have just stated. Several