The anatomy of the foetal brain : with a comparative exposition of its structure in animals / by Frédéric Tiedmann ; translated from the French of A.J.L. Jourdan by William Bennett. To which are added, some late observations on the influence of the sanguineous system over the development of the nervous system in general.

  • Bennett William M.D.
Date:
1826
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Credit: The anatomy of the foetal brain : with a comparative exposition of its structure in animals / by Frédéric Tiedmann ; translated from the French of A.J.L. Jourdan by William Bennett. To which are added, some late observations on the influence of the sanguineous system over the development of the nervous system in general. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    acquaintance with the facts which it contains. Well aware of the importance of the subject, I have preferred to trace the steps of M. Jourdan, and enter into these minute and in- teresting details, in the full conviction that a brief and summary sketch of the Work, would not only be an injustice to its author, but the most probable means of circulating erroneous ideas on the formation and struc- ture of an organ even now so little known. There is no subject in the vast range of medical science, which carries with it so much interest, as that of the brain and ner- vous system ; nor is there one which has so completely baffled the genius of the most celebrated Physiologists. It is difficult to determine, whether the impediments to the advancement of our knowledge on the func- tions of this organ, are owing to any one cause alone ; yet we have been hitherto con- tinually following the same narrow path in the pursuit of inquiry, and confining our researches too closely to the examination of