Croonian lecture. On the mammalian nervous system, its functions, and their localisation determined by an electrical method.
London: published for the Royal Society by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1891. First published edition being an offprint from the Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 182 (1891). B, pp. 267-526; 4to, 7 plates, illus. and tables in text; bound without wrappers in contemporary green cloth-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered direct on spine; first two leaves a little browned, old ink annotation on title-p., all else very good. Garrison-Morton 1420.1: "Gotch and Horsley showed that electric currents are produced in the mammalian brain, and they recorded them with the string galvanometer of the capillary electrometer. Their work led eventually to the development of the electroencephalograph." Item #25005
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