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Paper, 'Note on the functional and structural arrangement of efferent fibres in the nerve-roots of the lumbo-sacral plexus. (Preliminary communication)' by Charles Scott Sherrington

Reference number: PP/19/4

Date: 1892

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Sherrington writes: 'At the commencement of some observations on the reflex mechanisms of the spinal cord in Macacus, difficulties were encountered which made it desirable to attempt for that animal a somewhat particular examination of the distribution of the efferent and afferent spinal nerve-roots belonging to the lumbo-sacral plexus. The present communication has reference to the distribution of the efferent fibres of the roots.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Physiology / Neuroscience

Received 14 March 1892. Read 17 March 1892. Communicated by Michael Foster.

A version of this paper was published in volume 51 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Note on the functional and structural arrangement of efferent fibres in the nerve-roots of the lumbo-sacral plexus. (Preliminary communication.)'.

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PP/19/4
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1892
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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24 pages
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Charles Scott Sherrington, Paper, 'Note on the functional and structural arrangement of efferent fibres in the nerve-roots of the lumbo-sacral plexus. (Preliminary communication)' by Charles Scott Sherrington, 1892, PP/19/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_19_4/paper-note-on-the-functional-and-structural-arrangement-of-efferent-fibres-in-the-nerve-roots-of-the-lumbo-sacral-plexus-preliminary-communication-by-charles-scott-sherrington, accessed on 09 October 2024

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