Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2145

SANTIAGO RAMóN Y CAJAL (1852-1934) Degeneration & regeneration of the nervous system. Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford 1928 Vol. I: xx, 396 pp., front. (port.), illus.; Vol. II: viii, 397-769 pp., illus. 23.3 cm.

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In the "Preface to the Spanish Edition" of this work, Ramón y Cajal commented that "I set myself the task, at the expense of laboratory work, of revising all the investigations previously published, and also of making a special study of many doubtful or uncertain points. The present book constitutes, then, an extensive monograph original in large part" (p. vii). In the Author's "Preface to the English Edition," he remarked that "This book may be considered, without exaggeration, as unpublished in Europe and North America. Although there appeared, in 1913 and 1914, a Spanish edition which was paid for by the physicians of the Argentine Republic, nearly all the copies were distributed to the South American subscribers" (p. v). The work was translated and edited by Raoul M. May (b. 1900), a friend and colleague of Ramón y Cajal's, from the Laboratoires d'Anatomie et Histologie Comparées et de Chimie Biologique at Paris.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 566