Observations on the structure of the brain, comprising an estimate of the claims of Drs. Gall and Spurzheim to discovery in the anatomy of that organ / By John Gordon.

  • John Gordon
Date:
1817
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Credit: Observations on the structure of the brain, comprising an estimate of the claims of Drs. Gall and Spurzheim to discovery in the anatomy of that organ / By John Gordon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    S suits and in their principles, calculated to retard the progress of real knowledge. This opinion has been adopted after long and painful research ; and I own it neither surprises me, nor (if I may be pardoned for so speaking) di¬ minishes my confidence, that others, whose names are not unknown to the medical world, have ex¬ pressed different sentiments. An intimate ac¬ quaintance with the structure of the brain is ex¬ ceedingly difficult of acquisition ; the organ is pe¬ culiarly delicate, and its parts are intricate and numerous. Fully proportioned, however, as the importance of this knowledge may be to the ob¬ stacles in the way of attaining it, in a physiolo¬ gical point of view, it is fortunately not of essen¬ tial consequence in the practice of medicine. Dis¬ eases may be distinguished from each other, and the proper remedies applied to them, without it; and hence it happens, that a study at once ardu¬ ous, and in a great measure unnecessary, is easily relinquished ; and that skilful and eminent prac¬ titioners are satisfied, and justly so, with a gene¬ ral view of the structure of this organ. The in¬ formation, too, demanded by the profession, can¬ not fail to influence the learning and the lessons
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