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pel, used by anatomists to dissect the nerves. Neurotome. Erasistratus of the Alexandrian College of Surgeons, in the Ptolemaian period, wrote upon the nerves, and knew the distinction between those of motion and those of sensation. — Ency. Brit., II. 751. Rufus of Ephesus, who was probably contemporary with Trajan, in his works on anatomy, divided the nerves into those of sensation and of motion. — Nouvelle Biographic Generale, Tome XLII. p. 882. Nevertheless, Sir Charles Bell and Mr. Mayo are credited by Whewell (History of the Inductive Sciences, III. 425) with the discovery that the two offices of conducting the motive impressions from the central seat of the will to the muscles, and of propagating sensations from the surface of the body and the external organs of sense to the sentient mind, reside in two distinct portions of the nervous substance. New′el. 1. (Carpentry.) The post at the head or foot of a stairs, supporting the hand-rail. The center-post of a wi<
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Aug. 10, 1869. 10,893.Prescott, May 9, 1854.111,415.Wolff, Jan. 31, 1871. 12,424.Smith and Cowles, Feb. 20, 1855.118,289.Smith, Aug. 22, 1871. 26, 791.Skinner, Jan. 10, 1860.120, 866.Felber, Nov. 14, 1871. 27, 597.Noyes, Mar. 20, 1860.128, 970.Mayo, July 16, 1872. 39, 747.Post, Sept. 1, 1863.131,147.Brackett, Sept. 10, 1872. 75, 728.Brooks and Clements, Mar. 24, 1868.136,529.Mayo, March 4, 1873. 151,742.Bailey, June 9, 1874. Sloam. （Mining.) A layer of earth between coal-seams. Mayo, March 4, 1873. 151,742.Bailey, June 9, 1874. Sloam. （Mining.) A layer of earth between coal-seams. Sloates. （Vehicle.) The cross slats in the frame forming the bottom of a cart or wagon bed. Sloop. （Nautical.) a. A foreand-aft rigged vessel with one mast, like a cutter, but having a jib-stay and standing bowsprit, which the cutter has not. b. Formerly a ship of war of a size between a corvette and a brig. War-vessels of 2,000 tons and upward, as large as line-of-battle ships in the days of Howe and Nelson, carrying 12 to 22 heavy guns, are now termed sloops. Slop.