The criminal mind / Maurice de Fleury.

  • Fleury, Maurice de, 1860-1931.
Date:
1901
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The criminal mind / Maurice de Fleury. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C, G, left hemisphere of the brain.—C, D, right hemisphere.— E, G, grey surface.—f, fibres (so called) of projection: the undulated fibre is sensitive and goes from the outside world to the brain ; the straight fibre is moveable and centrifugal.—r, c, cere¬ bral cells.—b, a, fibres of association binding together all the parts of the grey surface.—E, P, inter-crossings of pyramids ; the fibres of projection pass there from right to left, and reciprocally, so that it is the left brain which commands the movements of the right side of the body, &c.—c, a, the fore corner of the spinal marrow where the motor fibre comes to, and whence the motor nerve which ends in the muscle M, starts afresh.—c, the back corner of the spinal marrow where the sensitive nerve n, s, comes to, and whence the sensitive fibre (undulated line) which carries impressions of the outer world, or notions on the state of our own organs, starts afresh.—S, sensible surface.