Excerpt from Archives de Neurologie, 1889, Vol. 18: Revue des Maladies Nerveuses Et MentalesLes traumatismes du crâne, considérés au point de vue de leurs effets éloignés, ont une légende. Il fut un temps où les coups, les blessures graves à la téte, pouvaient, non seulement ne pas causer de dommage, mais au contraire, développer des aptitudes nouvelles, changer en intelligence supérieure des facultés qui, jusque - là, étaient restées eu - dessous de la moyenne.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.