Observations on the Structure and Functions of the Spinal Cord

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S. Highley, 1837 - 159 pagina's
 

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Pagina 159 - The Economy of Health ; or, the Stream of Human Life from the Cradle to the Grave. With Reflections, Moral, Physical, and Philosophical, on the Septennial Phases of Human Existence. By James Johnson, MD 18mo.
Pagina 80 - Its body was bent upon the abdomen, its short tail tucked in between the hind-legs, which were one-third shorter than the fore-legs. The whole length from the nose to the end of the tail when stretched out, did not exceed one inch and two lines.
Pagina 143 - Op. cit. p. 21. these, though not hitherto distinguished, to which I have ventured to give the designation of the reflex. Volition and the motive influence of respiration are direct in their course, and spontaneous in their action ; the former proceeding from the cerebrum, the latter from the medulla...
Pagina 33 - ... to perceive these fibrils running like delicate striae in the grey substance. In one instance the fibres being more distinct than usual, an appearance was presented having a remarkable resemblance to that which is seen, on making a section of the corpus striatum in a recent brain, after the method of Spurzheim. My friend and colleague Mr. Cooper, in this case counted distinctly five separate fibrils passing from the anterior root of one nerve, and there were some other fibres derived from the...
Pagina 158 - Bell lias evidently endeavored to construct a work of reference for the practitioner, and a text-book for the student, containing a ' plain and practical digest of the information at present possessed on the subject, and results of the author's own investigations...
Pagina 117 - That volition is the inseparable attribute of the cerebral hemispheres, and lobes of the cerebellum. 8. That the spinal cord, in every class of the animal kingdom in which it exists; and the analogous part, in those animals in which, in consequence of variety of shape or other circumstances, this cord cannot be detected in the usual form, is the inherent seat of a property, totally distinct from sensation and volition, called the reflex power. 9. That the reflex power is never exercised, without...

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