Title
Le Système Nerveux Central
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Description
Soury, J. Le système nerveux central, structure et fonctions, histoire critique des théories et des doctrines. Paris: Masson et Cie, 1899
Jules-Auguste Soury (1842-1915), a Parisian theorist and historian of science, was the author of ‘The Central Nervous System', one of the most comprehensive and original accounts, until 1900, of the history of brain research. A contemporary of Jules Déjerine (1849-1917), Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934), and other pioneers of neurology, with whom he maintained contact, Soury is a rare case of a French philosopher with solid foundations in neuroanatomy and neurophysiology. A quaint savant, Soury has been depicted as a strange hybrid produced by nature. His odd personality was coupled with elegance, solidity, and thoroughness in his neurological works. His prodigious facility for assimilating and discoursing the ideas of others has been somewhat clouded by his lamentable ideological tenets. Nevertheless, in his neurological writings, he bequeathed a unique anatomical and physiological history of intelligence, a natural history of the human mind, or, as he conceived it, a neurophilosophical sketch of the universe considered a cerebral phenomenon.
Publication Date
1899
Publisher
Masson et Cie
City
Paris
Keywords
history of brain research, Jules-Auguste Soury
Recommended Citation
Soury, Jules-Auguste, "Le Système Nerveux Central" (1899). Jason W. Brown Library. 15.
https://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/jason-brown-library/15