Jirí Procháska (1749-1820)
Jiří Procháska was an ophthalmologist, physiologist, and anatomist but it is impossible to consider him a neurologist. Paradoxically, however, his contribution to the development of the emerging feld of neurology is undeniable. His theory of the refex, with its aferent and eferent branches and a...
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| Format: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
| Language: | English |
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2020
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10171/58858 |
| Summary: | Jiří Procháska was an ophthalmologist, physiologist, and
anatomist but it is impossible to consider him a neurologist.
Paradoxically, however, his contribution to the development
of the emerging feld of neurology is undeniable. His theory
of the refex, with its aferent and eferent branches and a
decision-making center in between, became one of the foundations of clinical, experimental, and theoretical neurology in the century to follow. |
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