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Diagram from Sherrington (1906) to show the major spinal connections of the scratch reflex. The two dorsal root ganglion cells that innervate the two hairs at the bottom left of the figure send branches to the spinal cord neurons and also have an ascending axon that was cut in this experiment and is not shown. Further details in the text.
