Author: WUNDT, WILHELM
Title: Untersuchungen zur Mechanik der Nerven und Nervencentren. Erste (Zweite) Abtheilung. Ueber Verlauf und Wesen der Nervenerregung. Mit 30 Holzschnitten. Ueber den Reflexvorgang und das Wesen der centralen innervation. Mit 41 Holzschnitten.
Description: Erlangen, Stuttgart, Verlag von Ferdinand Enke, 1871. - 1876. 4to. 2 vols. in 1. W. 71 woodc. textills. In original yellow pr. wrs., top and bottom of spine a small part gone. (XIV, 278, I (errata), I (blank); VIII, 144 pp.). (Uncut; Unopened with exception of a few lvs. at beginning and end.). DSB XIV, pp. 526 - 529: Boring, Hist. of experimental psychology, Ch. 16, pp. 316 - 347: 'Wundt is the senior psychologist in the history of psychology. He is the first man who without reservation is properly called a psychologist.': Flugel, 100 years of psychology, pp. 176 - 190: Heirs of Hippocrates, item 1983: 'Wundt was one of the first to investigate the complexities of reaction time. This work on nerve transmission may be considered the basis for his later experiments on the subjects.'

Keywords: nerves physiology neurology cells nervous system medicine W73