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THE disadvantage of divorce between form and function in biological study is nowhere more often seen than in relation to the nervous system. Doubly valuable, therefore, is a review of some current problems by one of the foremost living neurohistologists who, while declaring that “however valuable physiological observations may be, as long as their real histological basis is disproportionately small or entirely missing, even the best physiological theories remain nebulous”, is willing to admit that “morphological details everywhere only derive their full value in view of the physiological and functional insight which they are able to furnish”.
Problems of Nervous Anatomy
By Prof. J. Boeke. Pp. vii + 164. (London: Oxford University Press, 1940.) 7s. 6d. net.
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BLAIR, D. Problems of Nervous Anatomy. Nature 146, 571 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146571a0
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