GOTCH, FRANCIS and VICTOR HORSLEY. - TOWARDS THE ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPH.

Croonian Lecture. - On the Mammalian Nervous System, its Functions, and their Localisation determined by an Electrical Method. Received and Read Fenruary 26, 1891.

(London, Harrison and Sons, 1892). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", 1891, Vol. 182 - Series B. Pp. 267-526, textillustr. and 7 photoprinted plates. Clean and fine.

First printing of this importent pioneer work in the physiology of the nervous system.
"Gotch and Horsley showed that electrical currents are produced in the mammalian brain, and they recorded them with the string galvanometer or the capillary electrometer. Their work led eventually to the development of the Electroencephalograph."(Harrison & Morton No. 1285).

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