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Julius Bernstein (1839-1917)
The Five Senses of Man
New York: D. Appleton, 1889

Julius Bernstein was as a German physiologist with a degree in medicine. He worked primarily in neurobiology and biophysics, specifically on issues of how nerves work and was the first person to correctly suggest that there were what would now be called receptor cells that helped transmit elctricity through nerves. Seen below are images depicting the sense of sight from his Five Senses.

Page 86 depicting eye examining equipment

An interior of view of the eye, page 87

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