What were the two prominent theories of what nerves were prior to the Bell–Magendie law? What did the Bell– Magendie law demonstrate?
What will be an ideal response?
Before the Bell–Magendie law, the two prominent theories were Descartes’ view that
nerves were hollow fibers that transmitted animal spirits from the brain to the muscles,
and Hartley’s view that nerves were the means by which “vibrations” were
conducted from the sense receptors to the brain and from the brain to the muscles.
The Bell–Magendie law demonstrated that sensory nerves carried impulses forward
from the sense receptors to the brain, and motor nerves carried impulses forward
from the brain to the muscles and glands. It demonstrated separate sensory and motor
tracts in the spinal cord and suggested separate sensory and motor regions in the
brain.
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