The applied anatomy of the nervous system : being a study of this portion of the human body from a standpoint of its general interest and practical utility in diagnosis, designed for use as a text-book and a work of reference / by Ambrose L. Ranney.

  • Ranney, Ambrose L. (Ambrose Loomis), 1848-1905
Date:
1888
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    upon this field can be complete without frequent allusions to, or quotations from, the valuable contributions of the more prominent neuro-anatomists, pathologists, and physi- ologists. The new matter incorporated in this edition as well as much of the old edition contains frequent references to the writings of many authors, and it is hoped that their respective views are now correctly and impartially stated at all times. Great care has been exercised' in giving full credit to those to whose original >vork the author owes much of the valuable information here gathered into one • ' •, • • volume. The aim of the author has been to furnish a reliable guide to the student of neurological anatomy and physi- ology, in which he may find the views of the leading minds in that field accessible, and the main facts which are applicable to diagnosis clearly interpreted. It is still pos- sible that oversights in acknowledgment may have oc- curred, as is very apt to happen in a work of this kind (since it is but a publication of lectures delivered before classes of students), but, if so, they are unintentional and open to correction. Much of the new matter of this edition has already ap- peared in various medical journals, among which may be mentioned the ‘‘New York Medical Journal,” the “Medical Record,” the “ Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases,” and the “Archives of Medicine.” Some of these lectures have received the unexpected honor of a French and Ital- ian translation. In the preface to the first edition th$ author expressed his incentive to the effort, as well as his doubts, as follows: “ The rapid strides, which are being made in the inter- pretation of the symptoms of nervous diseases, and the in-