The mental symptoms of brain disease : an aid to the surgical treatment of insanity, due to injury, haemorrhage, tumours, and other circumscribed lesions of the brain / by Bernard Hollander.

  • Hollander, Bernard, 1864-1934.
Date:
1910
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Credit: The mental symptoms of brain disease : an aid to the surgical treatment of insanity, due to injury, haemorrhage, tumours, and other circumscribed lesions of the brain / by Bernard Hollander. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER II RECENT HISTOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES IN FAVOUR OF THE LOCALISATION THEORY Not very many years ago localisation of function was considered impossible because of the supposed uniformity of the structure of the cortex of the bram. It is through the histological studies of recent years that the localisation theory has gained its most notable victory. Since Meynert and Betz,—that is, since 1874,—a large number of investigations have been undertaken into the microscopical for- mation of the grey matter of the brain, with the result that it was discovered that the brain surface consists of various strata of cells, and that there are listologically highly differentiated regions and areas not only as regards the cellular elements and cell types, but as regards the structure of the fibres Bevan Lewis, Clarke, Nissl, Bolton, Cajal, Campbell Vogt, Mott, Brodmann have done most praise- worthy work in this direction. Unfortunately, here too, there is no uniformity of opinion even ’ with refeience to fundamental questions, as Dr. K Brodmann in his most recent work on Verglei-