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Excerpt from Course of Lectures on the Physiology and Pathology of the Central Nervous System: Delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in May, 1858
Experiments and views of longet.-objections by Dr. R. B. Todd, Mr. Lockhart Clarke, and the Lecturer. - Causes of error in experimenting upon the Spinal marrow. - Experiments proving that a part may be a conductor of the sensitive impressions, though not endowed with sensibility. - Experiments showing, Ist, that a transversal section of the posterior columns of the spinal cord, instead of causing anaesthesia, is followed by hyperaesthesia; 2d, that a transversal sec tion of the whole spinal cord, except the posterior columns, is followed by a complete anaesthesia. Anatomical and experimental facts showing the relative share of the gray matter, and of the various columns of white matter, in the transmission of the sensitive impressions 13!
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