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The Soul and the Pneuma in the Function of the Nervous System after Galen

Author(s) -

C E Quin

Publication year - 1994

Publication title -

journal of the royal society of medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38

H-Index - 81

eISSN - 1758-1095

pISSN - 0141-0768

DOI - 10.1177/014107689408700708

Subject(s) - soul , nervous system , philosophy , function (biology) , neuroscience , medicine , physiology , anatomy , psychology , epistemology , biology , evolutionary biology

Galen's teaching on anatomy and physiology was generally accepted in the Middle Ages and this applies to the part he thought was played by the pneuma in the functions of the body. In this essay I have outlined the advances made after Galen in the study of the nervous system leading eventually to a time when the soul and the pneuma were no longer thought necessary for the proper functioning of the brain and nerves.

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