History of Neurology (Galen's Nuerology)

Abstract

Galen produced good evidence that the brain was the center controlling sensory and motor activity and not the heart as claimed by Aristotle, but the acceptance of the ideas of this philosophy served the controversy of the of brain versus hearth as the ruling part. The nerves were hollow tubes containing ani mal spirits. He succeedeed to identify the nerves as motor and sensory. Until the end of nineteenth century, Galen's doctrine of neural science remained undisputable.