Memoirs on the Nervous System (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Memoirs on the Nervous System As the subject of the following pages is every day exciting greater interest, and assuming greater importance, and as I wish to claim neither more nor less than is justly due to me, I think it right to insert, in this place, two short communications made to the Zoological Society, and brief notices of my subsequent publications. The first was made on November the 27th, 1832. The following is an extract from the Proceedings of the Committee of Science: "A paper was read, containing 'a brief account of a particular function of the nervous system, ' in which Dr. Marshall Hall detailed a series of experiments tending to prove the existence of a source of muscular action distinct from all those hitherto noticed by physiologists: viz. volition, the irritation of the motor nerves in some part of their origin or course, or that of the muscles themselves. The peculiarity of this motion he stated to consist in its being excited by irritation of the extreme portion of the sentient nerves, whence the impression is conveyed through the corresponding portion of brain and spinal marrow as a centre, to the extremities of the motor nerves. "The animals experimented on were salamanders, frogs, and turtles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.