IV. Experiments in support of the uses ascribed to ganglions of the nerves, in Philosophical Transactions, Vol. LIV. and Vol. LVII

Abstract

Having before had the honour of having my thoughts on the uses of ganglions, which hitherto had remained an unsolved problem, read to the Royal Society; it was observed that a principal, and indeed almost the only objection of any weight, to which the doctrine was liable, arose from the indisputable fact, that each of the nerves arising from the spinal marrow had a ganglion.