scholarly journals Species of Compassion: Aesthetics, Anaesthetics, and Pain in the Physiological Laboratory

Author(s):  
Rob Boddice



Nature ◽  
1955 ◽  
Vol 175 (4459) ◽  
pp. 656-656
Author(s):  
B. C. ABBOTT


The object of the present paper is to define by histological methods the exact limitations of the visuo-sensory area of the human cortex cerebri. The investigation to be described has occupied upwards of three years. It was commenced during the summer of 1896 in the pathological laboratory of the County Asylum, Rainhill, Lancashire; it was continued during the next three years in the physiological laboratory of Mason University College, Birmingham; and it has been completed in the pathological laboratory of the London County Council at Claybury. Owing to the remarkable facilities for research granted to workers in the last-named laboratory, it has been possible to bring this investigation to a much more rapid conclusion than would otherwise have been possible. A general summary of the paper follows this introduction, and it is succeeded for convenience of reference by a list of the sections into which the paper is divided.



1989 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
A H Sykes


Author(s):  
Burdon Sanderson ◽  
F. Gotch

During the month of September, 1888, we availed ourselves of the facilities afforded by the Laboratory for the purpose of continuing the investigations began by us the year before, of the function of the electrical organ of the skate. In the record of the work done by us in 1887 at St. Andrews, published in the Journal of Physiology, vol. ix, p. 137, we indicated several new lines of investigation which we hoped to pursue if the opportunity offered. Two of these indications we have now been able to fulfil satisfactorily, namely, those relating to the electromotive force of the shock, and to the way in which the function of the electric organ is controlled and influenced by the central nervous system. In the first of these inquiries, we used apparatus which was brought from the Oxford Physiological Laboratory, and temporarily fitted up in the room at Plymouth, which is set apart for physiological researches, and which we found well adapted for this purpose. For the second, a large number of experiments and consequently a considerable number of fish were requisite. Forty skates of various species (Raia Batis, R. clavata, R. microcellata, and R. maculata) were supplied to us and used in our researches, of which the result will shortly be ready for publication.We desire to express in the strongest terms our appreciation of the advantages afforded by the Laboratory for physiological researches. We would also record our personal obligation to the Director for his uniform courtesy and untiring zeal in obtaining for us, in spite of considerable difficulties, the material required for our work.



1899 ◽  
Vol 64 (402-411) ◽  
pp. 353-359

The following experiments were made during the months of May, June, and July, 1897, in the Physiological Laboratory of Leipzig, under the guidance of Professors Hering and v. Frey, to test whether in the frog, reflex electrical changes could be demonstrated at the central end— I. Of a mixed nerve. II. Of anterior roots alone. III. Of posterior roots alone. As regards the first two heads, the end in view was simply the actual verification of an extremely probable phenomenon, preparatory to an examination of the third head, viz., reflex electrical effects propagated down the posterior roots, which, in 1891, were pointed out by Gotch and Horsley, and offered as proof of the passage of centrifugal nerve impulses in normally afferent nerve channels.







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