Author: REMAK, R.- nervous system.- nerve fibers.-
Title: Observationes anatomicae et microscopiae de systematis nervosi structura.
Description: Berlin, Reimer, 1838. 4to. W. 2 engr. pls. at the end ['Remak ad nat: del (Fig. I. et IX. Hugo Trosch del.) ... Franz. sc.']. Mod. marbl. brds. [n3, A - E4, (F1)]. (VI, (1) - 41, I (errata) pp.). (Uncut, wide margins.). G&M. 1262: First description of the non medulated nerve fibers, 'Remak's fibers', : Haymaker & Schiller, 66/69: '...he recognized that the sympathetic fibers were gray because they were non myelinated ('Remak's fibers') and, most important, that axons of nerves were continuous with cells in the spinal cord ('Remak 's band') ...also that the symp. ganglion is the real center of the organic (autonomic) nervous system.' Waller I , 7877: H. of H. 1818: 'His unsurpassed ability as a microscopist is well demonstrated in this doctoral thesis... written in Latin when he was only 23 years of age. In it he presented one of the fundamental truths of neurohistory...':

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