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Cordasco 70-0622; GM 4558. The first book of Charcot's to appear in America, with a preface by Charcot written for the translation.
GM 4558; Waller 1910; Heirs of Hippocrates 1919—all the French edition; Meynell 3102. With a two-page preface in French by Charcot, written for the translation. "The translator discusses the views of Ferrier, Gowers and others and provies further comment at the ends [sic] of each chapter" [Meynell]. The Sydenham edition translates all 17 lectures, with an added appendix on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis."Charcot is especially notable for his important study of localization of functions in diseases of the brain" [GM].
Exner "identified the superficial tangential fibres of the molecular layer of the cerebral cortex, known eponymically as 'Exner's plexus'" [GM-5 #141] and identified the source of agraphia in the second frontal lobe convolution. Brücke's student and successor in Vienna, Exner cofounded the journal Zeitschrift für Psychologie und Physiologie der Sinnesorgane. "The relationship between psychic manifestations and the activity of the central nervous system occupied him time and again, as evidenced by his work on cerebral localization (1881). Concepts such as reaction time, facilitation and inhibition were coined and then explained by Exner" [Karl Rothschuh History of Physiology (Huntington, NY: Krieger, 1973), p. 242). Also see the numerous references in Boring's Sensation and Perception to Exner's experimental work on sensation.
GM-5 1409; Clarke & O'Malley Human Brain & Spinal Cord, 2nd ed. pp.513-18 & 683-89; Haymaker pp.513-18; McHenry pp.195-98; Norman Catalog pp.219-23.Ferrier charted "the precise localization of cerebral function—particularly motor function—in dogs, monkeys and other vertebrates. His scheme of localized function was based upon the concepts of 'motor' and 'sensory' interaction. Ferrier's results, first published in the West Riding Lunatic Asylum Reports of 1873, were amplified in his Function of the Brain, which constitutes one of the most significant publications in the field of cerebral localization" [Norman Catalog 791].
First published the same year in Oxford as Functional Localization in the Frontal Lobes and Cerebrum.
Essentially an application of Franz Joseph Gall's ideas to the cerebral localization of mathematical ability with numerous inserted plates of busts, portraits, and faces. Contains chapters on "Gall's Aussatz über denZahlensinn"; "Beiträge zur Kenntniß des mathematischen Talentes"; "Ueber das mathematische Organ"; "Ueber ide Bedingunen des mathematischen Organs, das Gehirn und den Schädel der Mathematiker"; Anhang: "Ueber Franz Joseph Gall" (with sections on the anatomy of the nervous system, psychology, physiology, and criticism).
Haymaker & Schiller, Founders of Neurology, 2nd ed., pp. 247-250; McHenry, Garrison's History of Neurology, pp. 218-19; GM 1414 (1st edition); Courville Collection 1565; Waller 5763. With twice as many papers as the 1881 first edition, this contains Munk's important studies on localization, the temporal lobes, and the brain's role in vision.German physiologist, a leading researcher in the neuranatomy and neurophysiology of vision, and a major contributor to knowledge of cortical localization, Munk coined the term 'Seelenblindheit.' He was Professor of Physiology at the University of Berlin and director of the physiological laboratory at the Veterinary School.
Cooter Phrenology in the British Isles #1065.5; Cordasco 30-0842. Spirited reply to John Gordon's (1786-1818) negative review of their work in the Edinburgh Review, 25 (June 1815): 227-68. Spurzheim's fifth published work in English. Chenevix's long article, to which Spurzheim has added 20 pages of notes, favorably reviews 6 works by Gall and Spurzheim: their Anatomie et physiologie du système nerveux (1810-1819); Gall's Sur les fonctions du cerveau (1822-1825); and Spurzheim's Observations sur la folie, Observations sur la phrénologie (1818), Essai philosophique sur la nature morale et intellectuelle de l'homme (1820), and Essai sur les principes elementaires d'education (1822).Gordon had virulently attacked the work of Gall and Spurzheim in his article. "The controversy was concerned largely with nerve 'fibers' and it served to publicize further in English-reading countries Gall's studies on the anatomy of the brain" [Clarke & O'Malley Human Brain, p. 598].
Cordasco 90-8454; McHenry p. 334; DeJong A History of American Neurology, pp. 45-47. The first extensive American work on cerebral localization. Séguin's successor at Columbia as professor of nervous diseases (1888-1918), Starr, who had studied in Europe with Erb, Meynert, Nothnagel, and Schulze, was by the turn-of-the-century a leading figure in American neurology. His most influential book, Organic and Functional Nervous Diseases appeared in 1903.
GM-5 #1588.7 Classic discussion of 19th century localization, with an important account of Herbert Spencer's influence on Hughlings Jackson.Return to Gach Books home page