The criminal mind / Maurice de Fleury.

  • Maurice de Fleury
Date:
1901
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Credit: The criminal mind / Maurice de Fleury. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    spheres and of the spinal marrow which comes after them, we shall be able to make a fresh series of useful verifications. There we see, in the first place (fig. 2), that the surface of the brain, all pleated with circumvolutions, is made of grey substance, while the subjacent parts are consti¬ tuted of white substance entirely striated with fibres grouped in clusters in the spinal marrow, and radiating towards the outside. It will suffice for us to examine two of those fibres. One of them—which we represent as waved to distinguish it from the other—springs from one of the sensible surfaces of our organism, S. We trace it to the spinal marrow, where it throws itself into the hind corner ; there it pauses, only to mount again, crosses its congeners of the opposite side, takes its place among a thousand others in the white substance, comes out at the surface and terminates at contact with a large cell of the grey substance. From that cell another fibre, rectilinear in our drawing, and centrifugal, starts. After having made the crossing in E, P, this fibre descends into the marrow, recruits itself in the fore corner, starts again, and ends in M, at the motor organ, the muscle that acts. A sensation which comes to us, and a movement
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