A Chapter in the History of the Nervous System

Abraham Jacobi has remarked that in America the history of medicine is almost never taught, and that as long as our universities do not teach it, the pupils feel encouraged to neglect it. Many reasons might be urged for the study of the history of science. It gives some idea of how men who have accomplished things have lived and thought and worked. It furnishes a perspective view of the way in which the medical disciplines, like others, have come into their present form. The continuity of develo...