...himself, he was ready enough to profit by those of others. On testing experimentally Bell's idea of the functions of the anterior and posterior roots of the spinal nerves, and varying his experiments in every way he could think of, Magendie was only able to arrive at this general...

...Charles Bell, the distinguished anatomist and physiologist, who in the early years of 1800 worked out the different functions of the anterior and posterior roots of the spinal nerves, one of the most important truths in the physiology of the nervous system, and who in 1811 published...

...sciences. To do this required that he make a large number of original researches. He verified Bell's law of the different functions of the anterior and posterior roots of the spinal nerves and the theory of reflex action. His investigations on the physiology of the blood and the discovery of...