An atlas of the medulla and midbrain : a laboratory manual / by Florence R. Sabin ; edited by Henry McE. Knower.

  • Florence R. Sabin
Date:
1901
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Credit: An atlas of the medulla and midbrain : a laboratory manual / by Florence R. Sabin ; edited by Henry McE. Knower. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A description and the plates of a reconstruction of the medulla oblongata of the new-born babe was published in the “ Contribu- tions to the Science of Medicine,” dedicated to William Henry Welch.” The model was built in the Anatomical Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University at the suggestion of Dr. Franklin P. Mall and Dr. Lewellys F. Barker. It was the original thought that such a reconstruction would not only show graphically for the first time the form and relations of the tracts and nuclei, but that it would simplify for the student of anatomy a region both com- plex and difficult. The shape of the tracts in the cord was well known, the forms of the internal capsule in the brain could be fairly well imagined, but the tracts between the cord and brain were too complex to give mental pictures without the aid of a model. The suggestion has been made by Dr. H. Mc E. Knower, of the Anatomical Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins Medical School, that the description of the model be put into a more con- venient form for the student; by means of fuller references to the plates and sections; by a rearrangement of contents to make the location in the model of any set of serial sections or any single section of the region an easy matter; by adding a full index; and by a list of literature containing a few of the most important references valuable to the student at the beginning of a study of the central nervous system of man or the mammals. I am in- debted to him for the arrangements for this edition. I wish to thank Dr. John Hewetson for the material which made the model possible. Both series were unbroken, and so 1 Model of the Medulla, Pons and Midbrain of a New-born Babe, by Florence R. Sabin. Contributions to the Science of Medicine, and vol. ix of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Reports.
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