Frasi di Charles Bell

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“Alla ricerca è più utile l'anatomia che l'esperimento… La sperimentazione non ha mai rappresentato un mezzo per far progredire la ricerca, e un esame di ciò che è stato tentato negli ultimi anni in fisiologia dimostra a sufficienza che la sezione di animali vivi ha contribuito più a perpetuare errori che a confermare le giuste nozioni alle quali siamo giunti attraverso lo studio dell'anatomia e dei movimenti naturali.”

Charles Bell

Origine: Da Esposizione del sistema naturale dei nervi del corpo umano (An Exposition of the Natural System of the Nerves of the Human Body, 1824); citato in Hans Ruesch, Imperatrice nuda. La scienza medica attuale sotto accusa http://www.hansruesch.net/articoli/Imperatrice%20Nuda%20(1976).pdf, Rizzoli, Milano, 1976<sup>2</sup>.

Charles Bell: Frasi in inglese

“In concluding these papers, I hope I may be permitted to offer a few words in favour of anatomy, as better adapted for discovery than experiment. … Experiments have never been the means of discovery; and a survey of what has been attempted of late years in physiology, will prove that the opening of living animals has done more to perpetuate error, than to confirm the just views taken from the study of anatomy and natural motions.”

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Charles Bell

An Exposition of the Natural System of the Nerves of the Human Body. With a Republication of the Papers Delivered to the Royal Society, on the Subject of the Nerves, London: Spottiswoode, 1824, pp. 376 https://books.google.it/books?id=hc0GAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA376-377.

“I should be writing a third paper on the Nerves, but I cannot proceed without making some experiments, which are so unpleasant to make that I defer them. You may think me silly, but I cannot perfectly convince myself that I am authorised in nature, or religion, to do these cruelties—for what?—for anything else than a little egotism or self-aggrandisement; and yet, what are my experiments in comparison with those which are daily done? and are done daily for nothing. So my employment is, correcting the press of my new edition of the Anatomy, and writing notes for my Physiology, which I mean to make an additional volume to the Anatomy.”

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Letter to his brother on 1 July 1822; in Letters of Sir Charles Bell, K.H., F.R.S.L. & E. Selected from his Correspondence with his Brother, George Joseph Bell, London: John Murray, 1870, pp. 275 https://books.google.it/books?id=UZ1cAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA275-276.