Excerpt from Anatomy of the Brain and Spinal CordThis little book, first written whilst I was a student, still, as formerly, pretends to no originality. Its one aim is and always has been to present, in as clear and simple a manner as possible, an outline of the Central Nervous System to the student, who, for the first time, is brought face to face with this most intricate subject, and to furnish him, to the best of my ability, with those facts which he will find most useful in his future work, and which, let us trust, he will not have soon to unlearn. Although, owing to a sad bereavement, the book was out of print for nearly ten years, it has now reached a fifth edition. 'this, at my age, will, in all probability, be the last as far as I am concerned. In it my one endeav our has been to keep the book as small as before. Any increase in length, apart from the inevitable addition of new matter, being chiefly due to the rewriting and extending of previous descriptions, with the object of rendering obscure passages easier to understand. New tables and recapitulations have also been given to serve for quick and easy reference.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.