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Title: The Journal of nervous and mental disease
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: American Neurological Association
Subjects: Nervous system Psychology, Pathological
Publisher: Baltimore (etc.) Williams & Wilkins (etc.)
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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the purpose of bringing thisstill little understood territory closer to the practicing neurologist aswell as to stimulate and guide to further research in it. Each succeed-ing edition has marked the progress which has been made, largelythrough his own researches in comparative anatomy in the study ofbrain anatomy and especially of the fiber tracts. Comparative neurology particularly occupied his attention. By utiliz-ing the staining process discovered by Weigert, with whom Edingerwas associated, he studied the brain and nervous system of lower forms,following the crossed ascending connections of the sensory nuclei withthe midbrain in the larval period in reptiles and in the human embryo. LUDWJG EDINGER 175 He described also the secondary spinal cord fibers to the thalamus whichaccompany the anterolateral tract, which are now known as Edingersfibers, and worked upon the forebrain of fishes, amphibia and reptiles.His interest came to center chiefly upon the forebrain and the associative
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fiber connections, the development of which he followed through otherforms. He has given to neurology the recognition of the special divi-sions of the brain phylogenetically considered with their increasing com-plexity in development, which has led to the classification into pale-encephalon and neencephalon. The primitive brain he regarded as anautomation, its function being reflex and instinctive, while he saw thehuman cortex as the highest development of the gradual building up ofthe associative pathways and centers for higher psychic functions. Edinger was associated with a wide circle of fellow workers, namesfamiliar in various parts of the neurological world. He had realized the >7<, LUDW1G EDINGER need of a neurological departmenl at Frankfort for the furtherance ofthe work of neurology, hoth for carrying on the work of research andMiter for meetings and discussions, and aided in the establishment:h a department in the University of Frankfort, lie was a teacherwho sought t

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