Stories
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The mystery of the malignant brain
In 1884 a neurologist successfully used a patient’s symptoms, plus a new kind of map, to locate a brain tumour. Discover how his best-laid plans for treatment worked out.
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The anatomy of a brain dissection
Dissecting the brain after death not only helps confirm a diagnosis, but it can also teach us so much more about the symptoms and causes of brain diseases and how to treat them.
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The shape of thought
Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s description of the moment in 1887 when he saw a brain cell for the first time never fails to move neuroscientist Richard Wingate to tears. Here he captures that enduring sense of wonder.
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London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
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On the position of the motor centres in the brain in regard to the nutritive and social functions / by T. Lauder Brunton.
Brunton, Thomas Lauder, Sir, 1844-1916.Date: [1882]- Books
The revival of phrenology : the mental functions of the brain: an investigation into their localisation and their manifestation in health and disease / Bernard Hollander.
Hollander, Bernard, 1864-1934.Date: [2012]- Books
The mental functions of the brain : an investigation into their localisation and their manifestation in health and disease / by Bernard Hollander.
Hollander, Bernard, 1864-1934.Date: 1901- Books
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The mental functions of the brain : an investigation into their localisation and their manifestation in health and disease / by Bernard Hollander.
Hollander, Bernard, 1864-1934Date: 1901- Books
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On the localisation of movements in the brain / by J. Hughlings Jackson.
Jackson, John Hughlings, 1834-1911.Date: [1875]