Structure and development of the brain : a lecture delivered in the City Hall, Glasgow, under the auspices of the Glasgow Science Lectures Association / by Allen Thomson.

  • Allen Thomson
Date:
1879
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Credit: Structure and development of the brain : a lecture delivered in the City Hall, Glasgow, under the auspices of the Glasgow Science Lectures Association / by Allen Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2. The differences in its form, size, and structure among animals. ^gon 0f t]if, brain of man -with that of the anhuafs most nearly resembling him, such as the anthropo- amm. . aniTip remarks on the varieties of form rnTsizeU observed in the brain among different individuals ari<4 ''and last” An attempt to form a scheme or plan of wAo^in o Sr words, to trace the relation and connec tion of Its various parts, not merely by the study of the arrano-ement of the larger and more obvious masses, but a by the microscopical investigation of its mmute structure which makes us acquainted with the organised nature of the texture and the properties of the materials employed m its ^^uchAview of the structure or anatomy of the brain would naturally be accompanied or followed by an account 7its functions! but, as may be readily sive and interesting a series of topics couid not with ad ^ tage be discussed in the present lecture which I sh^re r^ Arse. At present therefore I shall not attempt to dojnoie than to show the bearing which ascertained facts m e anatomy hZ upon the knowledge and investigation of the functions Before proceeding with the special subjec s m i “ S me first give you a very short general account of the brain of man. , coverino- membranes and This organ, filling, along witii its cover m r ™tgr m» a i ssue which from its being of a similar nature with that composing the nerves, is named the nervous tissue or teTbee‘size of the human brain is subject to great varia- tion. By the comj»™on of a ^ i, h» been found tb, a ^«™flbs „oirdupoi>, m a grown man oi tins county # +_ qk cubic & • iTT /iQi' a7 . bulk is from oU to oo cuuio or more precisely oz.} its uu