SHERRINGTON, Sir Charles Scott (1857 – 1952)

1892 CE

#1288

Notes on the arrangement of some motor fibres in the lumbo-sacral plexus.

An analysis of the distribution of the ventral nerve roots. Sherrington showed the association of the lateral horn cells with the sympathetic outflow.

1893 CE

#1288.1

Further experimental note on the correlation of antagonistic muscles.

The first of Sherrington’s papers investigating reciprocal innervation of muscles.

1898 CE–1900 CE

#649

Text-book of physiology. Edited by Edward Schäfer. 2 vols.

A collective work and a classic textbook of physiology, edited by Schäfer using the original version of his last name. He was a pupil of Sharpey, and when that great man died without any known descendants Sch&aum…

1906 CE

#1300.1

On the proprio-ceptive system, especially in its reflex aspect.

Sherrington investigated and explained the proprioceptive system.

1906 CE

#1432

The integrative action of the nervous system.

Sherrington insisted that the essential function of the nervous system was the co-ordination of activities of the various parts of the organism. His work on the nervous system, especially his experimental studies of r…

1920 CE

#12592

The medical problems of flying. Including Reports Nos. I-VII of the Air Medical Investigation Committee. Privy Council Medical Research Council.

1924 CE

#1443

Reflexes in response to stretch (myotatic reflexes).

This investigation of the stretch reflex was of value in elucidating muscle tone and posture.