Author: FERRIER, D.
Title: Les fonctions du cerveau. Trad. de L'Anglais par Henri C. de Varigny.
Description: Paris, Germer Baillière et cie., 1878. W. 68 woodengr. ills. Contemp. half mor. (VIII, 518, I (blank) pp.). Hirsch II, 509/10: DSB IV, 593/95: Ferrier, David, 1843 - 1928, neurophysiology, neurology. Ferrier 'was one of the original members of the Physiological Society, founded in 1876, ...founding editor of 'Brain' ... excelled ... in experimental physiology ... In this field he will always be remembered for his contributions to the problem of localization of function in the cerebral cortex. ... Ferrier's fame as an experimental neurologist was made by these studies, which he first published in the 'West Riding Lunatic Asylum reports' of 1873 and later in book form as 'The Functions of the Brain' (1876) ...(it) is one of the most significant publications in the field of cortical localization.': Comp. G&M 1409: Heirs of Hippocrates, comp. 2059: Poynter, The Brain, 231/2: Brazier, p. 165/70: Clarke/Jacyna i.l.c.: Haymaker/Schiller, p. 195-198: 'Ferrier will be primarily remembered for his pioneer work in neurophysiology and especially the experiments by which he established the concept of localization of function in the cerebrum. ... by means of comparative studies he established general principles of the functions of the brain in mammalian species from rodents to apes.': Clarke & O'Malley, 683/6: Garrison/McHenry, 219/23: Norman Coll. 791 (1st Engl. ed.): Comp. Waller coll. 3012 (German transl.), 3015 (2nd ed. 1886): Grollier, 100 books, nr. 76: 'Modern neurologists consider that Ferrier provides the connection between Hughlings Jackson, with whom he worked in the 1870s, and Charles Sherrington, who worked with him in the 1890s. Through him the theoretical and clinical neurology of the former was linked with the experimental neurophysiology of the latter.': An excellent copy of the first French translation.

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