I defend the following postulate as an indisputable principle: that each nerve fibre originates as a process from a single cell. This is its genetic, nutritive, and functional center; all other connections of the fibre are either indirect or secondary.


'Zur Geschichte des menschlichen Rückenmarkes und der Nervenwurzeln' (1887). Trans. Edwin Clarke and C. D. O'Malley, The Human Brain and Spinal Cord (1968)

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I defend the following postulate as an indisputable principle: that each nerve fibre originates as a process from a single cell. This is its genetic, ...

I defend the following postulate as an indisputable principle: that each nerve fibre originates as a process from a single cell. This is its genetic, ...

I defend the following postulate as an indisputable principle: that each nerve fibre originates as a process from a single cell. This is its genetic, ...

I defend the following postulate as an indisputable principle: that each nerve fibre originates as a process from a single cell. This is its genetic, ...