The nervous system of the human body: As explained in a series of papers read before the Royal Society of London (3rd ed. with additions).

Bell, Charles

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“…The Bill makes a number of provisions relating to houses in bad repair in England and Wales, including the reduction of the new rent limits where the house is in disrepair, and protection of the tenant against an increase in rent, unless the house is in good repair or the landlord undertakes to make it so (cl. 1 [2] and Part II of First Schedule). According to the provisions of the Bill, on receipt of a demand for an increase in rent, the tenant may serve a notice on his landlord specifying repairs which he considers necessary, and asking the landlord for an undertaking that he will carry them out.…”

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Topical Aspects of Poliomyelitis

Ardley¹

1956

Journal (Royal Society of Health)

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1956

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“…In one of several papers on the nervous system read before the Royal Society of London in 1844, Bell refutes the notion that his ideas on the distinction between motor and sensory nerves were "nothing more than those of Galen." 3 As striking as Bell's rebuttal, however, is his acknowledgment of how much Galen and others knew hundreds of years before Bell and Magendie's publications, namely "the division . .…”

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“…of nerves arising from the brain into those of sensation and of motion, or into hard and soft nerves." 3 Herophilus and Erasistratus laid the foundations of nervous anatomy two millennia earlier. Herophilus, born in Chalcedon, Bithynia (circa 300 BCE), was a physician in the Hippocratic school, who, along with Erasistratus (circa 260 BCE), helped introduce the discipline of anatomic dissection.…”

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Herophilus, Erasistratus, Aretaeus, and Galen: ancient roots of the Bell–Magendie Law

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Mocco³

2007

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✓Since the early 19th century, significant controversy has persisted over the competing claims of two men, Charles Bell and François Magendie, to a pivotal discovery: that the dorsal spinal roots subserve sensation, whereas the ventral spinal roots subserve motion. However, the foundations of neuroanatomy on which Bell and Magendie built their research was formed two millennia in advance. Exploration of the work of four ancient scholars—Herophilus, Erasistratus, Aretaeus, and Galen–reveals a remarkable early appreciation of the separate neural pathways (if not the correct physiology) responsible for sensory and motor control.

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“…It seems clear, though, that its ''discovery'' occurred more or less simultaneously in Britain, France, and Germany. 64 While some observers regarded the introduction of steel-nib pens as a predisposing factor, the common aetiology was identified in the volume and intensity of the work, and also in its alienated character; academics and authors did not present with these symptoms. By the same token, cramp seemed in many cases to include an element of psychic resistance to the specific task, with the affected limb still being usable for leisure activities.…”

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Hands and Minds: Clerical Work in the First “Information Society”

Rosenhaft¹

2003

Int Rev of Soc His

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Ã E v e R o s e n h a f tThis article examines some aspects of the labour involved in generating, recording and transmitting information in eighteenth-century Europe. It centres on the study of a particular occupational group: the men involved in the day-to-day operations of the schemes for the marketing of lifecontingent pensions which would develop into modern life insurance, a form of enterprise whose growth was deeply implicated in the emerging ''information society''. The bulk of the work these men did was what we would now call clerical work: keeping and processing records and accounts, managing correspondence, preparing reports for publication. It was in the nature of the information regimes within which they worked and the kind of information they were handling, though, that the responsibilities and demands placed on them went beyond those associated with the mechanical function of recording and reproducing. This made for an occupational profile which was relatively fluid, and only gradually came to be distinguishable from other contemporary forms of middle-class employment, in terms of the disciplines peculiar to it and the hazards it incurred. Among the hazards were forms of mental and physical strain that accompanied rapid increases in the volume of data that had to be handled and in the speed of its circulation, as a direct consequence of its character as ''information''. While the account focuses on the study of a particular kind of enterprise in a particular place, northwest Germany, it draws on comparative data for officers and staff in analogous forms of commercial and administrative employment in Britain. The article concludes with a consideration of how their occupational profile might fit into an extended account of the historical development of information work.Ã This article is based on research towards a wider study of life insurance and middle-class culture in eighteenth-century Germany. Research to date has been funded by the British Academy, the German Academic Exchange Service, and the University of Liverpool. I am grateful to William J. Ashworth, Jü rgen Schlumbohm, and Richard Waller for their advice and comments, and to Sylvia Mö hle for inspired assistance with genealogical research on Anton Dies.

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The nervous system of the human body: As explained in a series of papers read before the Royal Society of London (3rd ed. with additions).

Cited by 13 publications

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Topical Aspects of Poliomyelitis

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Herophilus, Erasistratus, Aretaeus, and Galen: ancient roots of the Bell–Magendie Law

Hands and Minds: Clerical Work in the First “Information Society”

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