'This book should be on the bookshelves of every institution and individual enagaged in the study of the neurosciences.'
Neuroscience, Vol. 36, No. 2, 1990
PART I: THE EARLY PERIOD (1890-1894): Studies on small mammals; PART II: AN INTERLUDE (1896-1897): Methylene blue and the special cells of layer I; PART III: THE MIDDLE PERIOD (1899-1901): The great works on the human cortex; PART IV: THE YEARS OF CONSOLIDATION (1904-1911): The textura and the histologie; PART V: THE FINAL YEARS (1921-1935): The cat and the rodents; The return to the neuron doctrine; PART VI: A MODERN VIEW.