RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Brown-Séquard on the transmitted effect of an operation. CUL-DAR195.1.19. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/).
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker 4.2010, corrections and editing by John van Wyhe 11.2010. Corrections by Christine Chua 5.2022. RN2
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR195 contains materials for Darwin's book Expression of the emotions (1872) organised roughly as: DAR195.1 blushing. DAR195.2 astonishment, fear. DAR195.3 indignation, rage, screaming, etc. DAR195.4 laughter, frowning, introduction.
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In M.S. on [illeg] of Head skin & Brain Dr Brown says that cutting the grt sympathetic nerve of Head, says impaired [sensibility] & of sense of Hearing
thus looks as if some effect, though capillary [illeg] , had been produced on eye & ear, locally as well as in brain; for the pupil contracts on one side of head, on which nerve was divided, — But it also depends whether Hearing is improved only on one side
why do certain facial muscles contract
[Memory] on touch. —
I might ask Dr Brown where to read — see p 6 M S [Corfu] Man & Blushing—
1 Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard (1817-1894), a Mauritian physiologist and neurologist. This note was used in a footnote to Descent 2d ed., p. 60.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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