Excerpt from Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences, Vol. 2: A Yearly Report of the Progress of the General Sanitary Sciences Throughout the World Scarcelya Single new fact, in the domain Of cerebral localiza tion proper, is reflected in the literature Of neurological medicine for the past twelve months. Some new evidence has been adduced confirmatory Of the generally accepted facts, but the value Of this evidence is in many instances largely problematical, and relatively unimportant. Bechterew and M. Slawski have demonstrated experimentally, upon dogs and rabbits, the existence Of a centre for movements Of the vagina, located in the anterior margin of the motor region (presumably in the trunk field) in rabbits, and in the sigmoid gyrus in dogs. The movements are those Of excitation and inhibition, - functions which are expelimentally separable, but quite closely related topographically. A very fair re'sume' Of the present status Of the subject Of cerebral localization is given in a paper by L. Harrison A paper absolutely revolution ary and without any basis whatever, except the t'pse (hail of the writer, is contributed by Eugene Dupuy, Of Paris. Sufi, The author's peculiar teaching, as expressed in this paper, which was read before the London Neurological Society, is that the brain cortex is endowed with functions neither motor nor sensory, but simply potential matter (sic expressing potentiality only through the stimulation Of peripheral-nerve impulses. The dig nity Of the medical body addressed is the only justification for a reference to such doctrine, even incondemnation. 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.