Author: Eben W. Fiske

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-26

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 9781330435649

Excerpt from An Elementary Study of the Brain The introduction into the purely academic curriculum of an anatomical study of the brain, even as a higher course in zoology, presents many difficulties both to student and instructor. Its presentation, as differing from that in the professional school, must be necessarily of an elementary character - a necessity offering many obstacles with a subject which is essentially advanced. In the preparation of a textbook for such a course, neither the complexities of cerebral structure, nor the confusion of the associated nomenclature, can be successfully evaded. Yet the average academic student, only too often possessed of no especial interest in this department of science, is not only unschooled in anatomical research and terminology, but is likewise wholly unfamiliar with the principles upon which they are based. To avoid these difficulties, as far as practicable, has been, then, the underlying motive in providing for the beginner this very simple introduction to the anatomy of the human brain, using the brain of the sheep, because of its general availability, relative simplicity, and practical identity to that of man, as the subject for dissection and the basis for comparison. The advantages of actual dissection are obvious; the book is, primarily, a laboratory manual for the student himself. It is designed, however, to be rather more than a manual - to be, if possible, a unit study of the brain, of a strictly elementary nature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.