On the convolutions of the human brain / by Alexander Ecker ; translated by permission of the author by John C. Galton.

Date:
1873
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Credit: On the convolutions of the human brain / by Alexander Ecker ; translated by permission of the author by John C. Galton. 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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    NOTE The subjoined description of the Convolutions of the adult human Cerebrum is intended to facilitate a due understanding of the same—the knowledge of their type, that is to say, of the general in the particular. It has been supported especially by numerous investigations into their development in the foetus, which are published in detail elsewhere. The author, while most fully recog- nising the great progress which has been made in such knowledge through the study of the brain of the apes, is nevertheless of opinion that, in order to arrive at a com- plete vmderstanding of the subject, very much more attention must still be directed to the history of the development of the convolutions than has hitherto been done. This description has been framed with especial view to the needs of the physician, and is intended to enable him, when at the post-mortem table, the better to shape his course through the seeming chaos of convolu- tions, so that he may be capable of registering with accuracy the all-important observations upon the patholo- gical changes in the cortex of the cerebrum. Though it be, of course, meet and right that Anatomy should not be the handmaid of Medicine, it cannot, nevertheless, be