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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' ({{LifeData|birth=1847-06-29|birthplace=Zwickau|birthcountry=|death=1929-07-22|deathplace=Leipzig|deathcountry=Germany}}) was an eminent nineteenth-century German neuroanatomist, psychiatrist and neuropathologist.
Professor Flechsig had an interest in myelinogenesis — the development of the myelin sheaths for nerves.<refname="myelogenesis2024">{{REFweb
|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myelinogenesis
|title=Myelinogenesis
|date=
|accessdate=2024-01-07
}}</ref>The myelin acts as an insulator to allow the electrical impulses to travel through the nerves.<ref name="myelogenesis2024" /> Flechsig observed that the myelin sheath is not yet formed in newborn babies,<ref>{{REFjournal |last=Flechsig |init=P |author-link= |last2= |init2= |author2-link= |url=https://zenodo.org/records/1428540 |title=Developmental (Myelogenetic) Localisation of the Cerebral Cortex in the Human Subject |journal=Lancet |date=1901-10-19 |volume= |issue= |pages=1027-9 |accessdate=2204-01-07}}</ref> so he came to the unfounded conclusion that the newborn cannot feel pain.
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