A memoir on some recent discoveries relative to the functions of the nervous system : read before the Academie des sciences at Paris, at the public sitting of the 22d of June, 1823 / by F. Magendie.

Date:
1828
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Credit: A memoir on some recent discoveries relative to the functions of the nervous system : read before the Academie des sciences at Paris, at the public sitting of the 22d of June, 1823 / by F. Magendie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    side: the animal instantly lost all power of contracting its features in that very part, and the whole of its physiognomy assumed, by the evident contrast between the two, so very sin- gular an expression, that on beholding the creature it was impossible to abstain from laughing. Every by-stander was struck with the ana- logy existing between the features of the monkey and those of a celebrated actor, who had long been a favourite of the British public. It appeared highly probable, that this man availed himself of some natural deformity ta entertain the audience; and, upon further investigation, the fact was found correct. I have myself repeated these experiments: in every instance they were attended with similar results. They throw considerable light on the func-