Studies on Vertebrate Neurogenesis.

RAMóN Y CAJAL, Santiago.

$350.00

Item Number: 126007

Springfield: Charles C Thomas Publisher, 1960.

First edition in English of the Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist’s important treatise on vertebrate neuroembryology.  Octavo, original cloth, illustrated.  Translated by Lloyd Guth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon in this condition.

Santiago Ramon y Cajal was among Spain's greatest scientists. Over a century ago, his work laid the foundations for the field of modern neuroanatomy. In 1906 Ramon y Cajal shared the Nobel Prize with the Italian anatomist Camillo Golgi for the development of the revolutionary neuron theory, which established the neuron as the basic unit of the nervous system. In Studies on Vertebrate Neurogenesis, Cajal reveals how the static techniques of classical histology can be utilized to answer important dynamic physiological questions of embryology. Devoted to neuronal histogenesis, the work details the development of specific parts of the nervous system and compares the histogenesis of the peripheral nervous system, spinal cord, cerebellum, cerebral cortex and retina.