The nervous system of the human body. Embracing the papers delivered to the Royal Society on the subject of the nerves.

  • Bell, Charles, Sir.
Date:
1830
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    PREFACE. The account of the nervous system given in this volume was originally presented to the Koyal Society in six papers, which will be found in their Transactions from the years 1821 to 1829. Four of these papers were republished under the title of The Exposition of the JSTervous System; and some time after an Appendix was given to the public, containing cases in illustration. In the period immediately preceding the publication of these papers in the Philosophical Transactions, there was a singular indilference to the study of the nerves; and an opinion very generally prevailed, that as the notions of the ancients had descended to us uncontroverted and unimproved, the subject was entirely exhausted. The hypothesis that a nervous fluid was derived from the brain, and transmitted by nervous tubes, was deemed consistent with anatomical demonstration, and there was no hope of improvement. Most of the points of anatomy which have directed my inquiries had been noticed by Dr. Alexander Monro, in his work on the Nervous System. It was he who discovered that the ganglions of the spinal nerves were formed on the posterior roots, and that the anterior roots passed the ganglions. Santorini