English #physiologist who was the first to advance a #scientific explanation of #reflex #action.

English #physiologist who was the first to advance a #scientific explanation of #reflex #action.

Although Hall earned his living as a practitioner, he was deeply interested in experimentation.

A prolific writer, he wrote 19 books and more than 150 papers. Between 1824 and 1830, Hall published several papers and a book on the consequences of blood-letting. Hall published a pioneering book (1817) on #diagnosis. In 1833, Hall described the #mechanism by which a stimulus can produce a response independently of #sensation or volition and coined the term "reflex" in the biological context.

For the first time, the concept of the reflex arc was adopted as a basic mechanism of #nervous disease, thus Hall may be called "the father of modern neurology."

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