The Functions of the Brain

functions of the nervous system. He also furnishes us with the particulars of the experiments which he has recently made, with the view of elucidating some of the most difficult problems in physiology. He has moreover, in common with other physiological psychologists, had the presumption to suppose that the recent researches and conflicting experiments made both in this country and on the Continent, with regard to the precise centres of sensation and motion, warrant us in inferring that the mental faculties are but functions of the brain. Whilst fully admitting the credit due to Dr. Ferrier for his unwearied industry, we are at a loss to understand the exaggerated and unqualified praise which has been accorded to him by the medical press. One recent reviewer in the Lancet asserts that Dr. Ferrier "has thrown a flood of light" on his subject. \\ e fail to see this, and fear that the flood of light existed only in the imagination of the writer. We are glad to find, howevei, that Dr. Ferrier himself does not speak in so confident a manner, for he modestly and candidly observes, in referring, in his introductory chapter, to recent researches, that " W e are still