Inaugural dissertation on the physiological inferences to be deduced from the structure of the nervous system in the invertebrated classes of animals. : Submitted to the medical faculty of the University of Edinburgh, in conformity with the rules for graduation,... / by William B. Carpenter.

  • Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885.
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M.DCCC.XXXIX
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Credit: Inaugural dissertation on the physiological inferences to be deduced from the structure of the nervous system in the invertebrated classes of animals. : Submitted to the medical faculty of the University of Edinburgh, in conformity with the rules for graduation,... / by William B. Carpenter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    VI parative Anatomy. It will be seen from the con¬ cluding summary, that the Author has thus been led to an affirmative opinion on this question; and he gladly avails himself of this opportunity of giving publicity to the result of his enquiries. That he formerly withheld his assent from this part of Dr. M. Hall’s doctrines, was solely because he did not consider them substantiated by the evidence ad¬ duced by that gentleman in their support; and his opinion on this point remains unchanged. In the following Essay is embodied the principal part of the Dissertation read by the Author before the Royal Medical Society, on the evening of March 15th. With regard to the anatomical details which occur in it, the Author can lay no claim to origi¬ nality, (with the exception of the description of the structure of the ganglia in the Articulata, § 76); since they are selected from recent systematic works, and from the Memoirs on the subject, with which the extended spirit of enquiry that is now7 so pre¬ valent has caused the transactions of various So¬ cieties, both British and Foreign, to abound. These Memoirs, however, usually concern but a single Class of Animals, and sometimes but a single Spe¬ cies ; and the details given have reference, more to the particular functions of the beings described, than to the General Physiology of the Nervous System. In many instances, therefore, the Author has given a very different form to the descriptions.