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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875. Excerpt: ... ESSAYS AND LECTURES OH THE PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY OF THE NEEYOUS SYSTEM. CEITICAL ESSAY ON THE PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY OF THE SPINAL COED. Some years ago, when Dr. Brown-Sequard delivered a course of lectures in Dublin on the "Physiology and Pathology of the Central Nervous System," I assisted in preparing his experiments. I had, in consequence, an opportunity of testing with more care than his other hearers the resulting phenomena. Moreover, the spinal cords of the animals experimented upon came into my hands. Having hardened them in spirit, I subsequently examined the exact lesion in each case, and compared it with the symptoms noted during life. Feeling that it was necessary still further to verify his researches, I myself repeated many of his experiments. I availed myself of this opportunity of showing to my pupils some of the most fundamental of these experiments, which so profoundly modified the views held up to that time, as to the functions of the spinal cord. The following essay, therefore, and the lectures here published, are not a mere analytical critique. These pages contain, in truth, an experimental criticism, or critical verification of Dr. BrownSequard's discoveries. In scientific progress, verification is the handmaid of discovery. The humble function of the handmaid is, however, as necessary in establishing the truth of new views, as is that of the mason in constructing an edifice designed by the most gifted architect. That the physiological researches detailed in this Part were not barren of practical results will, I trust, appear when I come to speak of injuries and diseases of the spine. "These Lectures contain the results of the work of almost all my life, since I began to studymedicine;" so says Dr. Brown-Sequard in his preface: ...
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