RT Journal
T1 FUnctional neuro-anatomy
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1949
FD March 12
VO 139
IS 11
SP 752
OP 752
DO 10.1001/jama.1949.02900280068037
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900280068037
AB This is an excellent text on neuroanatomy. It is labeled functional and justifiably so because the author has arranged and discussed the various structures as one meets them. These discussions are complete for each tract that the reader meets, and therefore the student is made acquainted with all the various parts of each pathway at one and the same time. This style of text writing is much more practical than the older method of describing various topographic levels. The book contains 242 pages and has 199 illustrations. The reading is very easy and the language is extremely simple. The student needs no dictionary to understand fully this important part of neurology. There are 29 chapters, starting with the development and histogenesis of the nervous system and ending with a chapter on the interstitial tissue of the central nervous system. This is the first edition of the author's mimeographed syllabus which