[Box of papers given at the Symposium on the history and philosophy of knowledge of the brain and its functions, London, 1957].

London, [between 1950 and 1959?]

1 box ; 27 x 20 cm

Evolution of concepts relating to the electrical activity of the nervous system 1600 to 1800. - Concepts of the brain and its functions in classical antiquity. - Some reflections upon the opening phase of the physiology of the cerebral cortex, 1850-1900. - Body and soul in Aristotelian tradition. - Current developments in thought and the past evolution of ideas concerning integrative function. - Wars of ideas in neurological science : from Willis to Bichat and from Locke to Condillac. - Critical survey of our conceptions as to the origins of language. - J.C. Reil's concepts of brain function. - Contributions of Gall and the phrenologists to knowledge of brain function. - Old and new concepts of the basis of consciousness. - Descartes's ideas of brain function. - Non-western concepts of psychic function. - Chemical contributions, especially from the nineteenth century, to knowledge of the brain and its functioning. - Anglo-American co-operation in science and medicine. - Medieval and Renaissance contributions to knowledge of the brain and its functions. - Hippocratic preamble : the brain and intelligence. - Hughlings Jackson's ideas of consciousness in the light of today.