The Faber Book of Science by John Carey

Author:John Carey [Carey, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780571300273
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2013-10-17T13:00:00+00:00

* It was due, no doubt, to these inconstancies of chrome-silver impregnation that Simarro, the introducer of the methods and discoveries of Golgi into Spain, abandoned his efforts in discouragement. In a letter to me in 1889 he said: ‘I received your last publication on the structure of the spinal cord, which seems to me an important work but not convincing, because of the method of Golgi, which, even in your hands, who have perfected it so much, is a method which suggests rather than demonstrates.’ Unfortunately, Simarro, who was endowed with great talent, lacked perseverence, the virtue of the less brilliant.

†The axis cylinder, or axon, is the fibre which conducts the nerve impulse away from the cell body. A nerve is a bundle of many such fibres. (Translator’s note.)

‡The neuron is one complete nerve element, the architectural unit of the nervous system, and typically comprises a cell body, one or more dendrites, i.e., processes which conduct towards the cell body, and an axon. (Translator’s note.)

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