摘要

描述Descartes-reflex.JPG	English: Illustration of the pain pathway in René Descartes' Traite de l'homme (Treatise of Man) 1664. The long fiber running from the foot to the cavity in the head is pulled by the heat and releases a fluid that makes the muscles contract.
日期	1664年
來源	Copied from a 345 year old book, Traite de l'homme
作者	勒內·笛卡兒  (1596–1650)       別名 René Des Cartes, Renatus Des Cartes, Renatus Cartesius 描述 法國哲學家以及作家 出生/逝世日期 1596年三月31日  1650年二月11日  出生/逝世地點 笛卡爾 斯德哥爾摩 創作地點 拉弗萊什; 普瓦捷; 斯德哥爾摩  權威檔案 : Q9191 VIAF: 41838958 ISNI: 0000000121296144 ULAN: 500223252 Open Library: OL116826A DBNL: desc004 WorldCat creator QS:P170,Q9191
其他版本	http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/230px-pineal.jpg

Quote from book

"For example, if the fire A is close to the foot B, the small particles of fire, which as you know move very swiftly, are able to move as well the part of the skin which they touch on the foot. In this way, by pulling at the little thread cc, which you see attached there, they at the same instant open e, which is the entry for the pore d, which is where this small thread terminates; just as, by pulling one end of a cord, you ring a bell which hangs at the other end.... Now when the entry of the pore, or the little tube, de, has thus been opened, the animal spirits flow into it from the cavity F, and through it they are carried partly into the muscles which serve to pull the foot back from the fire, partly into those which serve to turn the eyes and the head to look at it, and partly into those which serve to move the hands forward and to turn the whole body for its defense" Descartes, On Man, 1662

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