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scientific record of the last-named physiologist ; and if the 

 good taste of these allusions be called in question, we have 

 only to ask that the review in the Psychological Journal or 

 in the Joui*nal de Panatomie be consulted, and that the 

 comparisons there made be verified. The same criticisms of 

 the alterations in the republished memoirs of Sir Charles 

 Bell have been made by Yulpian. 1 Among English writers, 

 the relative claims of Bell and Magendie have been correctly 

 reviewed by a writer in the London Medical and Physical 

 Journal, in 1829, a and by Elliotson, in 1840. 8 Bernard, who 

 formerly ascribed the discovery to Bell, has lately recognized 

 fully the claims of Magendie. 4 



The first publications of Magendie concerning the anat- 

 omy and the functions of different portions of the nervous 

 system appeared in the Journal de physiologie, in 1821. In 

 the first volume of this journal, is a notice of the researches 

 of Charles Bell on the nerves of the face, with an account 

 of the observations of Mr. Shaw on the same subject.* Ma- 

 gendie here states that he repeated the experiments of Bell 

 with MM. Shaw and Dupuy at Alfort. 6 He had not at that 

 time received the memoir of Bell ; but in a succeeding num- 



1 VULPIAN, Lemons sur la physiologic ginirale et comparee du systeme nerveux, 

 Paris, 1866, pp. 109 and 127. 



8 The London Medical and Physical Journal, 1829, voL IxiL, p. 532. 



3 ELLIOTSON, Human Physiology, London, 1840, p. 465. 



4 BERNARD, Lemons sur la physiologic et la pathologic du systeme nerveux, 

 Paris, 1858, tome i., p. 20, et seq. Even Bernard, a pupil, and for a long time 

 the preparateur for Magendie, at one time seemed to regard Sir Charles Bell as 

 the discoverer of the functions of the roots of the spinal nerves (ibid., p. 25 ; and, 

 Lemons sur les effete des substances toxigues et medicamenteuses, Paris, 1857, p. 

 20) ; in a late work, however, in which this whole subject is reviewed, the claims 

 of Magendie to the discovery are fully recognized (BERNARD, Rapport sur le pro- 

 gres ct la marche de la physiologic generale en France, Paris, 1867, pp. 12 and 

 154). Bernard states that he was unable to obtain the original memoir of Bell, 

 printed in 1811, but finally procured an exact copy, which is probably the reprint 

 of 1839. (Ibid., p. 155.) 



6 CHARLES BELL, Recherches anatomiques et physiologiques sur le system* 

 nerveux. Journal de pkysiologie, Paris, 1821, tome i., p. 384, et seq. 

 6 Loc. tit., p. 387. 



