Materialism and modern physiology of the nervous system (1892)
Thomson, William Hanna, 1833-1918 · New York [etc.] G.P. Putnam's sons · leaf 66
ut little difference in it from thefamiliar effect of touching a sensitive plantwith its resultant shrinking of the leaves.The great difference lies in the incessant rep-etition of such afferent stimuli setting up,after awhile, in the nervous structure, a uni-form kind of reaction. But, after we… … BRAIN OF A LAMPREY. OF THE NER VO US S YS TEM. 5 9 new and differently constructed ganglia fromthose of the spinal cord. These new gangliaprove to be chiefly most portentous devel-opments of the afferent system, for they areno less than the centres of the special sensesof sight, smell and hearing,…
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