1881 The Brain and its Functions

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

Translated from the original French work titled 'Le Cerveau et Ses Fonctions'.

With a small number of vignette illustrations.

Jules Bernard Luys edited and authored many articles in this journal on matters of the brain, discussing various psychological and medical experiments.

Luys's work includes discussion of the anatomy of the brain, the 'properties of nervous elements', organic phosphorescence, automatic activity of the nervous elements, the evolution of the processes of cerebral activity, and the 'phase of propagation of the processes of cerebral activity'.

International Scientific Series, Vol. XXXVII

Former owner's inscription to verso of front free endpaper.

With twenty-two pages of advertisements to the rear.