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Wilhelm His
(9 Jul 1831 - 1 May 1904)

Swiss anatomist and embryologist.

Science Quotes by Wilhelm His (1)

I defend the following postulate as an indisputable principle: that each nerve fibre originates as a process from a single cell. This is its genetic, nutritive, and functional center; all other connections of the fibre are either indirect or secondary.
— Wilhelm His
'Zur Geschichte des menschlichen Rückenmarkes und der Nervenwurzeln' (1887). Trans. Edwin Clarke and C. D. O'Malley, The Human Brain and Spinal Cord (1968), 103.
See also:  |  Cell (43)  |  Nerve (31)


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