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Paper, 'On the development of the ciliary or motor oculi ganglion' by J [James] Cossar Ewart

Reference number: PP/15/22

Date: 1890

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Ewart writes: 'The most conflicting views have for some time been held as to the origin, relations, and homology of the ciliary (motor oculi, ophthalmic or lenticular) ganglion. By Remak, Schwalbe, Marshall, and others, the ganglion of the ophthalmicus profundus has been described as the ciliary ganglion, and this ganglion has frequently been regarded as the ganglion of the motor oculi nerve, and hence as homologous with the '

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Physiology

Received 13 February 1890. Read 6 March 1890. Communicated by Michael Foster.

A version of this paper was published in volume 47 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the development of the ciliary or motor oculi ganglion'.

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PP/15/22
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1890
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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11 pages
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Manuscript

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James Cossar Ewart, Paper, 'On the development of the ciliary or motor oculi ganglion' by J [James] Cossar Ewart, 1890, PP/15/22, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_15_22/paper-on-the-development-of-the-ciliary-or-motor-oculi-ganglion-by-j-james-cossar-ewart, accessed on 03 December 2024

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