Révision de la doctrine des localisations cérébrales unité segmentaire des réflexes.

In this quixotic book the author amuses himself immensely by tilting at windmills. When he makes such statements as that "in laboratories given to the cult of scientific truth, prevailed and still prevails the conception of ganglion cells with specific independent energies, and of nuclei which think and choose with the aptitude of divine spirits" he shows himself to be as out of touch with his environment as Don Quixote. This windmill he destroys in 195 pages by showing that the fundamenal activity of the organism both nervous and mental is the reflex (taught by Janet since twenty years), that the nervous system functions segmentally and that the suprasegmental parts serve only to control and coordinate this activity (a fundamental conception of English neurology since Hughlings Jackson), that there are no centers for language (demonstrated long ago by Pierre Marie), and that there are no centers for will or for