Brain culture through scientific body building / by Mrs. Theodore Parsons.
- Parsons, Matilda I. Cruice, 1878-
- Date:
- 1912
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Brain culture through scientific body building / by Mrs. Theodore Parsons. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![It was through his observations of two now famous cases, that Broca (1861), dis- covered that the function of speech is cen- tered in a part of the brain less than two centimeters in diameter, in the left third convolution. It was through their obser- vations of stiU more cases that Wernicke, Lichtheim, Kussmaul, and others gave us what little knowledge we have of the proc- esses involved in reading and writing. It was through clinical observations, that Carl Lange was led to investigations that resulted in his theory about the nature of emotions, weUnigh the most important psychological discovery in the last fifty years. That this theory now is a part of common knowledge is due much more to that American phy- sician, the genius among American psy- chologists, William James, than to Lange himself. Some persons may find it diflScult to ac- cept the demonstration of the personal will as an active agent in fashioning brain mat- ter, because it imphes] that a purely spiritual](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28080403_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
