Excerpt from An Inquiry Concerning the Diseases and Functions of the Brain, the Spinal Cord, and the NervesThe object of the following work is to call the attention of those practitioners of medicine into whose hands it falls, to the importance of the nervous system, and to persuade them to embrace every opportunity that is presented, for studying its functions and diseases.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.