Body and mind : an inquiry into their connection and mutual influence, specially in reference to mental disorders / by Henry Maudsley.

  • Henry Maudsley
Date:
1873
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Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    deficiency of transverse commissural fibres; and in size, and every one of the signs of comparative inferiority, it leaned, as it were, to the higher quadrumanous forms. The developmental differences between this brain and the brain of a European were in fact of the same kind as, though less in degree than, those between the brain of an ape and that of man. Among Europeans the average weight of the brain is greater in educated than in uneducated persons ] its size—other circum- stances being equal—bearing a general relation to the mental power of the individual. Dr. Thurnam concludes, from a series of carefully-compiled tables, that while the average weight of the brain in ordinary Europeans is 49 oz., it was 547 oz. in ten distinguished men; and Professor Wagner found a remarkably complex arrange- ment of the convolutions in the brains of five very eminent men which he examined.^ Thus, then, while I The following table is compiled from Dr. Thurnam's paper On the Weight of the Human Brain {Journal of Mental Science, April 1866):— BRAIN-WEIGHTS OF DISTINGUISHED MEN. Ages. Oz. I. . 63 64-5 2. . 64 63 3- . 56 55-06 4- • 54 55-6 5- De Morny, Statesman and Cotirlicr • 50 53-6 6. • 70 53'5 7- 80 . 67 53 9- • 52 52-9 10, . 78 52-6 Average of ten distinguibhed men . . . . 50-70 [Brain-