The Functions of the Brain (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Ferrier, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1332013953 ISBN 13: 9781332013951

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Functions of the Brain

While my primary object in this edition has been, as before, to give a detailed account of my own investigations, I have endeavoured to present to the reader a systematic exposition of the functions of the brain and central nervous system in accordance with what seem to me, after extensive and critical survey, the best established facts of recent physiological and pathological research.

The book has been almost entirely re-written; a good deal has been added and not a few modifications have been made, chiefly in matters of detail and methods of explanation. The principal doctrines formerly advocated in respect to the localisation of cerebral functions are maintained in all essentials unchanged.

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Excerpt from The Functions of the Brain

There is, perhaps, no subject in physiology of greater importance and general interest than the functions of the brain, and there are few which present to experimental investigation conditions of greater intricacy and complexity. No one who has attentively studied the results of the labours of the numerous investigators in this field of research, can help being struck by the want of harmony, and even positive contradictions, among the conclusions which apparently the same experiments and the same facts have led to in different hands. And when the seemingly well-established facts of experimentation on the brains of the lower animals are compared with those of clinical observation and morbid anatomy in man, the discord between them is frequently so great as to lead many to the opinion that physiological investigation on the lower animals is little calculated to throw true light on the functions of the human brain. These discrepancies appear less unaccountable, when the methods of experimentation and the subjects of experiment are taken into consideration. Up to quite a recent date, the principal method pursued by investigators into the functions of the brain, consisted in observing the results following the destruction, by various means, of different parts of the encephalon.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1332013953
• ISBN 13: 9781332013951
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 350