The Journal of Comparative Neurology, Volume 11Editors, Denison University, 1901 - Comparative neurobiology |
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Page xvii - German Edition. Edited by EDWARD D. FISHER, MD, Professor of Diseases of the Nervous System, University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York.
Page xi - ... AMERICAN YEAR-BOOK OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY FOR 1901. A Yearly Digest of Scientific Progress and Authoritative Opinion in all branches of Medicine and Surgery, drawn from journals, monographs, and text-books, of the leading American and foreign authors and investigators. Arranged with critical editorial comments by eminent American specialists. In two volumes — Volume I, including General Medicine.
Page xi - ... the same plan with the Year-Book for 1901. This arrangement has a two-fold advantage. To the physician who uses the entire book it offers an increased amount of matter in the most convenient form for easy consultation, and without any increase in price ; while specialists and others who want either the medical or the surgical section alone, secure the complete consideration of their branch at a nominal sum, without the necessity of purchasing considerable material for which they have no special...
Page 233 - the fundamental process which occurs in all psychic phenomena as the elemental component " is "the activity of the associative memory, or of association," and defines associative memory as "that mechanism by which a stimulus brings about not only the effects which its nature and the specific structure of the irritable organ call for, but by which it brings about also the effects of i other stimuli which formerly acted upon the organism almost / or quite simultaneously with the stimulus in question...
Page 134 - 98. The Functions of the Ear and the Lateral Line in Fishes. Amer. Jour. Physiol., Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 128-144. Locy, WA "97. Accessory Optic Vesicles in the Chick Embryo. Anat. Anz., Bd. 14, No. 5, pp. 113-124. Lyon, EP :05.
Page 233 - ... essential element. If an animal or an organ reacts as a rational human being would do under the same circumstances, these authors declare that we are dealing with a phenomenon of consciousness. In this way many reflexes, the instincts especially, are looked upon as psychic functions. Consciousness has been ascribed even to the spinal cord, because many of its functions are purposeful. We shall see in the following chapters that many of these reactions are merely tropisms which may occur in exactly...
Page xi - To tke physician who uses the entire book, it offers an increased amount of matter in the most convenient form for easy consultation, and without any increase in price; while specialists and others who want either the medical or the surgical section alone, secure the complete consideration of their branch...
Page 235 - Does the organism learn to make new adjustments, or to modify old ones, in accordance with the results of its own individual experience...
Page 35 - Le processus pathologique rahique détermine l'apparition du centrosome dans les cellules nerveuses des ganglions spinaux chez le Chien et chez le Lapin. Au cours de cette infection, le centrosome ne reste pas inerte; il semble se diviser (?) en deux; les deux centrosomes tendent à se séparer et à émigrer dans deux directions opposées. Les modifications nucléaires des cellules nerveuses au cours de l'infection...
Page xvii - Cloth, $3.50 net. In this atlas the author has portrayed an instructive section of medicine which is usually extremely difficult of mastery by students and practitioners. This work will be of great value to the physician. The matter is divided into anatomy, pathology, and description of diseases of the nervous system. The plates illustrate these divisions most completely. There is probably no work in existence in which so much is compressed within so small a space.