The Final Integration

Abstract

IN July the seventeenth meeting of the International Physiological Congress was held in Oxford. It was the first since the meeting at Zurich in 1938, and like other post-war congresses it was a most enjoyable reunion. The organising committee had many problems to face in planning for a meeting with an attendance of 1,300; but at least it had no difficulty in choosing an appropriate gift to the members. What was needed was some classical English work on physiology; for a congress at Oxford, therefore, what better choice could have been made than a new edition of Sherrington's Silli-man Lectures, “The Integrative Action of the Nervous System”? This famous book was published in 1906: it laid the foundations of the neurophysiology of the brain and spinal cord as we know it to-day, and though it has been out of print for some years it is still an essential introduction to the study of the central nervous system.

The Integrative Action of the Nervous System

By Sir Charles Sherrington. With a new Foreword by the Author and a Bibliography of his Writings. Pp. xxvi + 433. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1947.) 25s. net.