Flexiga Method

Flexig method

*Flechsig (P. A. Flechsig)* 1848

An attempt to analyze optical reflexes in vertebrates; a method by which the connection between the structure of the optic nerves and their fibers and the functions of the visual organs was studied: studies were also carried out on their pathology during extirpation of the optic nerves. He described the corticofugal reflex, was an outstanding neurologist, one of the founders of modern neuropathology. Discovered irritation of the spinal cord in animals with subsequent paralysis of muscles. He considered it obligatory for a doctor to know all types of clinical diagnostics. Author of more than 280