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In retelling ‘The Discovery of Reflexes’ (1960), EGT Liddell reduces the story to four critical periods: the nerve cell and the microscope, animal electricity, experimental approaches, and ‘Sherrington and his times’. Manuscript lecture notes loosely inserted in Liddell's own copy of ‘Reflex Activity of the Spinal Cord’ (1932) written with RS Creed, D Denny-Brown, JC Eccles, and CS Sherrington trace how a millennium of post-Galenic darkness was systematically illuminated across the 15th–19th centuries by Leonardo da Vinci, Robert Whytt, Gilbert Blane, Georg Prochaska, Julien Le Gallois, Pierre Flourens, Marshall Hall, Johannes Müller, Richard Grainger, Eduard Pflüger, Friedrich Goltz and Alfred Vulpian before Sherrington provided his great synthesis of 1906 (The Integrative Action of the Nervous System). But, self-evidently, there was still unfinished business if the nature and role of reflex function, most easily characterized in the spinal cord, for the nervous system as a
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