Cajal's Histology of the Nervous System of Man and Vertebrates

• VOLUME IGeneral Principles1: Basic Plan of the Nervous System2: Research Methods and Major Results3: Neurons: Size and General Morphology4: The Connections and Comparative Morphology of Neurons5: Functional Implications of Neuronal Morphology and Connections6: Fine Structure of the Neuron7: Variations in the Structure and Shape of Neurons Under Normal and Pathological Conditions and the Functional Implications of Such Variations8: Neuroglia9: Nerve FibersSpinal Cord10: The Spinal Cord11: Structure of Spinal White Matter12: Structure of the Gray Matter13: Commissural and Funicular Neurons14: Arrangement of Funicular Neurons in Various Parts of the Gray Matter15: Extraspinal Neurons with an Axon in the Cord16: The Peripheral Endings of Spinal Ganglion Cells17: The Central Process of Spinal Ganglion Cells18: Glia of the Spinal Gray Matter19: Functional Implications Arising From New Concepts About the Structure of the Spinal Cord20: Comparative Histology of the Spinal Cord21: Histogenesis of the Spinal Cord and Spinal GangliaMedulla and Pons22: The Medulla23: Internal Structure of the Medulla24: General Features of the Medulla Hypoglossal Nucleus25: The Accessory Spinal or XIth Cranial Nerve26: The Vagus and Glossopharyngeal or IXth and Xth Cranial Nerves27: The Vestibulocochlear Nerve: Vestibular Nerve28: The Vestibulocochlear Nerve: Cochlear Branch or Nerve29: The Facial or VIIth Cranial Nerve30: The Abducens or VIth Cranial Nerve31: The Trigeminal or Vth Cranial Nerve32: Neuronal Pathways of the Medulla and Associated Nuclei33: Medullary Extension of the Spinal Ventral Funiculus34: The Lateral Funiculus and Its Medullary Nuclei35: Intrinsic Pathways and Nuclei of the Medulla36: The PonsVOLUME IIThe Cerebellum1: The Cerebellar Cortex2: The Granular Layer3: Cerebellar White Matter and Glia4: Comparative Histology of the Cerebellar Cortex5: Cerebellar Histogenesis6: Deep Cerebellar Nuclei7: Cerebellar PedunclesThe Midbrain8: The Inferior Colliculus9: The Superior Colliculus10: The Optic Lobe of Lower Vertebrates11: The Tegmental or Intermediate Region of the Midbrain12: Tegmental Region (Continued)13: Ventral Regions of the MidbrainDiencephalon14: The Thalamus and Its Nuclei15: Visual Apparatus Retina or Receptor Organ for Visual Stimuli16: The Retina (Continued): The Retina of Other Vertebrates17: The Optic Nerve, Chiasm, and Tract18: The Lateral Geniculate Body and Pulvinar19: Thalamus (Continued)20: Thalamus (Continued): Medial Nuclei21: Hypothalamic Region and Its Nuclei22: Diencephalon (Continued)23: The Corpus StriatumCerebral Cortex24: General Structure of the Cerebral Cortex25: Regions of the Cerebral Cortex: Visual Cortex26: Auditory Cortex27: Motor or Somatosensory-Motor Cortex28: Olfactory Apparatus: Olfactory Mucosa and Olfactory Bulb or First-Order Olfactory Centers29: Secondary and Tertiary Olfactory Centers30: Pathways From the Temporal Olfactory Cortex31: Fourth-Order Olfactory Areas Ammon's Horn and the Dentate Gyrus32: Afferent and Efferent Projections of Ammon's Horn and the Dentate Gyrus33: Cingulate Cortex and Cingulum34: Comparative Structure of the Cerebral Cortex35: Histogenesis of the Cerebral Cortex36: Structure-Function Relationships in the CortexAutonomic Nervous System37: Autonomic Nervous System

Now that Cajal's great French classic from 1911 is available in a fine, fluent English translation, it should attract many to the text; not only to look at the illustrations and beyond to the passionately detailed descriptions, but also to savour the picturesque, and often belligerent, style in which Cajal describes the nervous system and some of its discoverers ... it is a book in which to gain an intimate acquaintance with an extraordinarily gifted, dedicated and original mind whose total involvement with the discovery, details and development of neurohistology and, perhaps most importantly, its functional interpretation, is communicated with clarity and excitement.