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On the Functions of the Medulla Oblongata and Medulla Spinalis, and on the Excito-motory System of Nerves

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  • Marshall Hall, detail of an engraving by J. Holl, 1839, after a portrait by J.Z. Bell
    In Marshall Hall

    …summarized in his paper entitled “On the Functions of the Medulla Oblongata and Medulla Spinalis, and on the Excito-motory System of Nerves” (1837). This research served as the basis for his theory of reflex action, which stated that the spinal cord consists of a chain of units and that each…

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