A memoir on some recent discoveries relative to the functions of the nervous system : read before the Academie des sciences at Paris, at the public sitting of the 22d of June, 1823 / by F. Magendie.

Date:
1828
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Credit: A memoir on some recent discoveries relative to the functions of the nervous system : read before the Academie des sciences at Paris, at the public sitting of the 22d of June, 1823 / by F. Magendie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    confounded together, would be to look in vam. Hence it became highly probable, that with ndividuals who had been deprived of the fa- culty of moving and who retained the sensi- bility of the parts, and reciprocally with such as had lost sensibility and preserved the moving power, there must nnavoidably have existed some disease or other, either in the sensible cord or in the other agent of the spinal marrow. Chance would have it, for chance also claims some share of influence over the progress of sciences, that an alienated patient, in the hospital of Charenton, had, for upwards of seven years, lost every motion in the body although he had retained sensibility. Mr' Royer Collard, physician to that establish- ment, caused the spinal marrow to be mi-