Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1937

JULES BERNARD LUYS (1828-1897) Recherches sur le système nerveux cérébrospinal, sa structure, ses fonctions et ses maladies. J.-B. Baillière 1865 Vol. I: xv, 660, 8 pp.; Vol. II: 80 pp., 40 leaves of col. plates. 24.1 cm.

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Luys was among the most notable of the many nineteenth-century French neurologists who made important contributions to the understanding of the anatomy and physiology of the brain. It was Luys who first delineated the four main divisions of the thalamus and described and pictured two of its structures later named for him: the subthalamic nucleus and the centre median. The forty colored lithographs in the atlas were made after Luys' own drawings and possess a clarity and three-dimensional realism hardly surpassed by modern illustrators.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 1402

Gift of John Martin, M.D.