Excerpt from The Human Brain: Histological and Coarse Methods of Research; A Manual for Students and Asylum Medical Officers Prompted by the editors of Brain, as well as by a personally-felt need for a concise summary of methods of examination of the nervous centres, the author contributed to the pages of that journal a series of articles on Methods of Preparing, Demonstrating, and Examining Cerebral Structure in Health and Disease. An appeal thus made to what was regarded as a gene rally prevailing want amongst asylum medical officers and students, was met with signs of cordial approval, and the frequently expressed wish for the re-appearance of these articles in a separate and convenient form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.