1883 –1884 GASKELL, Walter Holbrook (1847 – 1914)

On the innervation of the heart, with special reference to the heart of the tortoise.

Gaskell showed that the efferent vasoconstrictor fibers of the heart originated from the lateral horn of the spinal cord.

GMN 830 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/312

1933 –1934 LORENTE DE NÓ, Rafael (1902 – 1990)

Studies on the structure of the cerebral cortex. I. Area entorhinalis. II. Continuation of the study of the Ammonic system.

Lorente de Nó "demonstrated structural evidence that the cortical areas of mammals are organized in a columnar manner rather than in horizontal layers, thus articulating for the first time the basic features of the co…

GMN 10693 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12886

1974 BELL, Sir Charles (1774 – 1842); MAGENDIE, François (1783 – 1855); CRANEFIELD, Paul Frederick (1925 – 2003)

The way in and the way out. François Magendie, Charles Bell and the roots of the spinal nerves. With a facsimile of Charles Bell’s annotated copy of his Idea of a new anatomy of the brain. Edited by Paul Cranefield.

An annotated bibliography of the literature documenting the history of this controversy together with reproductions of the texts of the crucial papers. See Nos. 1254-1259.

GMN 1588.14 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1538