The Anatomy of the Human Brain *By Holmes Coote, Demonstrator of Anatomy at St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

precepts and example of John Hunter, and traced the nervous system in its gradations, step by step, from the lower to the higher classes of the animal kingdom, we should have been spared those long discussions to disprove that the spinal chord is made up of an assemblage of nerve tubes, which pass in an unbroken line from the periphery to the brain; or those figurative expressions, so productive of error, which pronounced the spinal chord to be a prolongation of the brain, or the brain to be an efflorescence of the spinal chord. Both the brain and chord are developed contemporaneously in early foetal