The nervous system and its functions / By Herbert Mayo.

  • Herbert Mayo
Date:
1842
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    common to every nervous system. So much, how- ‘ever, has been positively determined in these easier problems, as to enable me to lay down the results obtained in the form of laws of the nervous sys- tem. These will be found synthetically arranged in the first chapter of the present volume. Of the connexion between the higher mental operations and the parts of the brain little of a positive cha- racter has yet been made out. But many necessary preliminary questions have been solved, among which not the least is the determination of the structural relations of the different parts of the enkephalon ; and the investigation of their func- tions, the discovery of which cannot be beyond our reach, has at all events been actively commenced, however opinions may differ as to the quantity of real knowledge hitherto acquired through it. The reader must not expect to find that I have entered into much minuteness of detail. The individual facts brought forward are those alone necessary to establish the general conclusions which have appeared to me attainable. To this stock of facts I have myself been a part contributor, as well as to the inferences immediately deducible from
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