The nervous system of the human body : as explained in a series of papers read before the Royal Society of London. With an appendix of cases and consultations on nervous diseases / by Sir Charles Bell.

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1844
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    The present volume contains many proofs that, by the advancement of anatomical science, we are en- abled to make important practical distinctions; and these give value to that which can never he without interest to a student of nature. All the proofs of de- sign, of relation, of prospective contrivance, which are deduced from the mechanical parts of the animal frame, are as nothing to the instances which the con- templation of the Nervous System affords. The re- lations to external nature, the sources of enjoyment, the provisions against injuries, the order and symme- try adapted to bestow motion and action, visible in the Nervous System, supply accumulated proofs of benevolence, as well as of divine intelligence, in the construction of our bodies. Perhaps this volume should not be called a third edition, at least as implying emendations on what has been already published; for up to the present time it has been impossible to present the subject in a strictly systematic form: and it may be necessary to state something of the progress of these inquiries, in order to account for the peculiar form of the work. The author began his public labours as an assistant lecturer to his brother John Bell, who gave up to him that part of the course of Anatomy which treats of the Nerves; and he advised him to demonstrate the relations of the brain to the base and spinal marrow, instead of cutting it in horizontal sections. The in-