The Human Brain: Its Structure, Physiology and Diseases; With a Description of the Typical Forms of Brain in the Animal Kingdom (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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To the mind, however, which is unfettered by prejudices in favor of ancient opinions, it appears singular that the enlightened physiologists of the eighteenth century should talk of the medullary and cortical mat ter of an organ in which nothing like marrow or bark can be seen; and it~is more extraordinary still, that the accurate distinctions which ana tomy has introduced since the commencement of the nineteenth century, have not demonstrated the evil of retaining terms which are improper, as mere nominal distinctions; but which are doubly erroneous as the relics of an unfounded and exploded theory. Is the error of likening the brain to marrow, obviated by shrouding it under the learned deno mination of medulla and medullary? Or is the absurdity of supposing the gray matter of the convoluted surface, a bark, or envelope to the white pith, diminished in the slightest degree by calling that gray mat ter cortical? The common sense of the present day will not hesitate to answer these questions in the negative.

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