The Human Brain: Its Structure, Physiology and Diseases; With a Description of the Typical Forms of Brain in the Animal Kingdom (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Solly, Samuel

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ISBN 10 : 1334680353 ISBN 13 : 9781334680359

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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No labor should be thought too great which can assist-us in understanding the nature of that instrument which the mind employs in its communications with this world. Every day shows us that consciousness and volition maybe disturbed by the slightest accident to the head, and that disease seldom invades the brain without dethroning the mental powers. When I published the first edition of this work, I was not aware that so high an authority as Dr. Craigie had exposed, in the following forcible language, the evils I then, and have since, deplored. I gladly avail myself of his authority to assist in subduing this evil: To the mind, however, which is unfettered by prejudices in favor of ancient opinions, it appears singular that the enlightened physiologists of the eighteenth century should talk of the medullary and cortical matter of an organ in which nothing like marrow or bark can be seen; and it is more extraordinary still, that the accurate distinctions which anatomy has introduced since the commencement of the nineteenth century, have not demonstrated the evil of retaining terms which are improper, as mere nominal distinctions; but which are doubly erroneous as the relics of an unfounded and exploded theory. Is the error of likening the brain to marrow, obviated by shrouding it under the learned denomination of medulla and medullary? Or is the absurdity of supposing the gray matter of the convoluted surface, a bark, or envelope to the white pith, diminished in the slightest degree by calling that gray matter cortical? The common sense of the present day will not hesitate to answer these questions in the negative. Should it be said by the ambiguists, that now, when the absurdity of these names is known, it can do no harm to retain them as mere names, we answer, it may do no harm; but as it can communicate no information and explain no difficulties, it is, at
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1334680353
• ISBN 13: 9781334680359
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 520
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