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2. On a Method of Demonstrating the Relations of the Convolutions of the Brain to the Surface of the Head

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

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The outer surface of the skull does not correspond in shape to the outside of the brain. If it had corresponded there would have been no difficulty in determining the form of the brain from an inspection of the form of the head.

The shape of the brain does correspond to the wall of the cranial cavity. This wall is formed by the inner table of the cranial bones, which table, though separated from the brain itself by the cerebral membranes, is moulded upon the exterior of the organ.

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Proceedings 1873-74
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1875

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References

page 244 note * The Anatomy of the Brain, translated by Willis, p. 111. London, 1826.

page 244 note † Mémoires sur les Plis Cerebraux. Paris, 1854.

page 245 note * Sur le Siége de la Faculté du Langage articulé. Paris, 1861.

page 245 note † Die Grosshirnwindungen des Menschen. Munich, 1868.

page 246 note * Edinburgh Medical Journal, June 1866, and separate publication, “The Convolutions of the Human Cerebrum topographically considered.”