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The Integrative Action of the Nervous System

By
Charles S. Sherrington

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First published in 1906 by New Haven, Yale University Press

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To

DAVID FERRIER

IN TOKEN OF RECOGNITION OF HIS MANY SERVICES

TO

THE EXPERIMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY

OF

THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM

THE SILLIMAN FOUNDATION

In the year 1883 a legacy of eighty thousand dollars was left to the President and Fellows of Yale College in the city of New Haven, to be held in trust, as a gift from her children, in memory of their beloved and honored mother Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman.

On this foundation Yale College was requested and directed to establish an annual course of lectures designed to illustrate the presence and providence, the wisdom and goodness of God, as manifested in the natural and moral world. These were to be designated as the Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman Memorial Lectures. It was the belief of the testator that any orderly presentation of the facts of nature or history contributed to the end of this foundation more effectively than any attempt to emphasize the elements of doctrine or of creed; and he therefore provided that lectures on dogmatic or polemical theology should be excluded from the scope of this foundation, and that the subjects should be selected rather from the domains of natural science and history, giving special prominence to astronomy, chemistry, geology, and anatomy.

It was further directed that each annual course should be made the basis of a volume to form part of a series constituting a memorial to Mrs. Silliman. The memorial fund came into the possession of the Corporation of Yale University in the year 1902; and the present volume constitutes the second of the series of memorial lectures. The first volume in this series was “Electricity and Matter,” by Prof. J. J. Thomson, of Cambridge University.

PREFACE

The pressure of varied work has prevented my forwarding the text of these lectures for publication so early as I could have wished, and I take this occasion of expressing my regret at the delay. The circumstance that thus impels me to preface with a few words their issue affords me also the opportunity of recording how much I am indebted to President Hadley and the authorities of Yale University for tneir kindness during a visit which I shall ever remember with pleasure. To Professor Chittenden, Director of the Sheffield Scientific School of the University, I owe further a debt of gratitude for unstinted assistance open to me from him on all occasions.

C. S. S.

Contents

The Silliman Foundation

Preface

LECTURE I Introductory—Co-Ordination In The Simple Reflex

LECTURE IICo–Ordination In The Simple Reflex

LECTURE IIICo–Ordination In The Simple Reflex

LECTURE IVInteraction Between Reflexes

LECTURE VCompound Reflexes: Simultaneous Combination

LECTURE VICompound Reflexes: Successive Combination

LECTURE Vii Reflexes As Adapted Reactions

LECTURE VIIISome Aspects Of The Reactions Of The Motor Cortex