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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    grounded upon truth; and, undoubtedly, it was to secure to it a more sure and rapid progress, that, a short time since, this insti- tution accep-ted the bequest of that inestim- able man, who, from his death-bed, made such a noble and liberal use of his wealth. We may now be allowed to anticipate, that the mysteries of life, of which man has for so considerable a length of time been an eye- witness, without having been able to under- stand them, shall, in succession, be revealed to him ; and that his discoveries, with respect to the animated kingdom, will keep pace with those which relate to the inanimate world. This hope is already nearly realised. From every civilised point of the globe a generation of physiologists is seen to rise, which, throw- ing systems aside, diffuse over the animated part of the creation that light which shines