Unsoundness of mind / by T.S. Clouston.

  • Thomas Clouston
Date:
1911
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    cells had in fact used up the materials in their coal bunkers to produce the energy required for the long flight during the day. If they are examined in the morning after the rest, which in the bee corresponds to our sleep, they are found to be re-coaled and full of masses of chromatic substance—in fact, of potential energy for their day's work. A look at the pictures (Figs. 5 and 6 contrasted, pp. 35, 36) shows the differences between a full cell after sleep and an empty cell in the evening after work. Two of the latest contributions to our knowledge of the structure and functions of the brain cortex have been made by two British investigators—Drs. A. W. Campbell I and J. Shaw Bolton 2—each of whom is a psychiatrist of large experience. In their profes- sional work they had abundant material in the shape of the brains of the defective and unsound in mind— material which they used with patient and scientific labour extending over many years. Their results are of the highest importance as extending our knowledge of the whole subject of mind and brain, both in health and disease. Those results are too technical to be explained in a work of this character ; but it may be said that they show the different parts of the cortex of the brain to have different structures, the cells being different in number and in form, those differences corresponding to the different mental, motor, and sensory functions of the organ. Dr. Bolton's in- vestigations confirm those of others in shov/ing that the forward portion of the brain is that part which is connected with mind and especially with control. His work also tends to confirm with much greater certainty the fact that there is an essential physical basis of mental disease and defect in a want of de- ^ Gulstonian Lectures, the Lancet, 2, 9, and 16 April, 1910, by Joseph Shaw Bolton, M.D., F.R.C.P. ^ Histological Studies on the Localization oj Cerebral Function, 1905, by A. W. Campbell, M.D.
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