Observations on the ganglionic enlargement of the pneumo-gastric nerve; the probable function of that ganglion; and the position which it occupies in the human subject and in several of the lower animals / [Edward Cock].

  • Cock, Edward, 1805-1892.
Date:
1837]
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Credit: Observations on the ganglionic enlargement of the pneumo-gastric nerve; the probable function of that ganglion; and the position which it occupies in the human subject and in several of the lower animals / [Edward Cock]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I HAVE been induced to draw up the details of this Paper in consequence of a communication received a short time ago from Sir Astley Cooper. It will be seen that I have attempted nothing more than to follow out his views on the subject, and to enlarge somewhat on a discovery which is exclusively his own; and which will be best understood by quoting his words, as addressed to me in the following letter, which was accompanied by a preparation. “ MY DEAR EDWARD, “ A'pril 18, 1837. “ I have sent you the superior laryngeal ganglion of a rabbit, which I found last year (February 1836), whilst making the experiments I have published in the Guy's Hospital Reports on the Compression of the Carotid and Vertebral Arteries. I always thought it an objection to my friend Sir Charles Bell’s opinion of the ganglia giving sensibility, that the laryngeal nerve, going as it does to parts of the most sensi¬ tive description, was not ganglionic. It gave me much pleasure to find this ganglion. If you put the nerve in water for five minutes, you will see the usual colour of a ganglion in the enlarged part from which the laryngeal nerve springs. “ Yours affectionately, Astley Cooper.”