The connection between physiology and intellectual philosophy (1846)
Barlow, John, 1798 or 9-1869 · London : William Pickering · leaf 70
nd it isnot improbable that we may never arrive atmore than a conjectural explanation of it. Theoptic nerve, when observed with a powerful mag-nifier, appears to be formed of innumerable mi-nute fibrils which pierce through the delicatemembrane at the back of the eyeball, called theretina, and show… … PORT10N OF THE OPTIC NERVE MAGNIFIED. tory nerve has something of the same appear-ance, though the fibres are less minute thanthose of the optic nerve, and the points whichshow themselves on the membrane they pene-trate, differ slightly from these in their form. Itseems probable that both these…
Mind and body · Physiological Processes · Nervous System Physiological Phenomena
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