Les nouvelles idées sur la structure du système nerveux chez l’homme et chez les vertébrés

Paris: C. Reinwald & Cie, 1894. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH. With 49 text illustrations. Morocco-backed marbled boards, spine with gilt decorations and spine label; new endpapers. An excellent copy, clean and without any staining or soiling. First edition in french in book form of the enlarged version of a 1892 paper in Spanish summarizing Cajal’s findings in support of the neuron doctrine. Using Golgi’s staining technique on embryonic tissue, Cajal “established that nerve cell axons, although they ended in the gray matter of the central nervous system in many ways, did not link up with other axon terminals to form networks; and furthermore, that there was no physical continuity between one nerve cell and another” (Norman). Ramon y Cajal established the histological basis of modern neuroscience, for which he shared the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Camillo Golgi.

Garrison-Morton 1287 (note); Norman, 1778 (original version in Spanish).