The Localisation of Cerebral Disease

It is now about nine years since Hitzig's and Fritsch's experiments first attracted public attention to the question of the possibility of localising the centres of motion and sensation in the cortical structure of the brain. . Dr. Ferrier has followed up the researches of these physiologists with untiring industry, and his deductions from experimental, as well as from clinical and pathological observation, have met with the most indiscriminate approval from the leading medical periodicals. That he himself does not feel so confident of the result of his inquiries may be inferred from the following passages from his Lectures :? " Notwithstanding all the laborious researches and speculations which have been directed towards the elucidation of this subject, we do not seem yet to have arrived at any general agreement, except on a very few propositions, some of these