Twelve lectures on the structure of the central nervous system : for physicians and students / by Ludwig Edinger.
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- 1890
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Credit: Twelve lectures on the structure of the central nervous system : for physicians and students / by Ludwig Edinger. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![descriptions and drawings as somewhat diagramatic. They only serve the purpose of bringing to your attention, in the most comprehensive manner possible, the most important facts in regard to the course of fibres in the central nervous system. Much is still in dispute, but dimly marked out, with many details wanting. Wherever it was practicable I have given not only those facts which were discovered in a purely anatomical way, but also those tracts which have been determined by well- observed pathological facts. A diagram is not always a picture of the demonstrated course of fibres; it is often enough only a graphic representation of the conclusions which have been drawn from great numbers,of observations. A diagram is a changing structure. It must be improved, now here, now there. Certain parts often need to be torn down and rebuilt. It has been contended that we ought not to make use of diagrams in a subject so full of gaps as is our knowledge of the structure of the central nervous system. Let us rather hold, with old Burdach, who wrote in 1819, The gathering together material for the building is not all that is necessary. Every time that a new supply is obtained, we should renew our attempts to fit it into the building. By thus giving it a form the spirit of investigation is not hampered in its advance; on the contrary, it is when we first obtain a view of the whole that we see the gaps in our knowledge and learn the direction which our investigations must take in the future. May the attempts at this structure ever be renewed. No one who works at it but adds something to our knowledge. [Among recent treatises on the anatomy of the nervous system are the following:— Kolliker, Handbuch d. mikrosk. Anat. Leipzig, 1854.—Meynert. Vom Gcliirnc der Saugethieve, Strieker's Handb. d. Lelire von den Gewoben, 18i0.— Meynert Psychiatrie, I. Wicn, 1884.—ITenle, Handbuch d. Anatomic d. Nerven- sv.stems. Braunschweig, 1879 —Lnys, Rech(!rclies sur le Systeme nerveux cere- brospinal. Paris, 1865 —W. Krausc, Handl)uci> d. mcnschl. Anatonue. I Bd. Hannover, 1876.—Wernicke, Lehrb. d. Gehirnkrankh, I. Cassel. 18S1.—bchwalbe, Lehrb. d. Neurologic. Erlangcu, 1881. (Contains most of the literature up to 1881 ) —Hu-uenin, Allg. Pathol, d. Krankli. d. Nervensystems, I. Zurich, l^'o.— Kahicr, Nervcnsysiem in Tolds. Gcwebelohre, 2 Aufl., 1888 —Obcrsloinen Anlei- tung beim Studiuni des Bancs der nerv. Centralorg Wien Ibba—Meudel, Artikel'' Geliirn iu Euleiiburg's Rcaleucyklopiidie, 2 Aufl. Wieu, 188().]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21988705_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
