604f Walker* s Nervous System. 



the Brain are for the first Time assigned : and to which is 

 prefixed some Account of the Author's earliest Discoveries ; 

 of which the more recent Doctrine of Bell, Magendie, &c., 

 is shown to be at once a Plagiarism, an Inversion, and a 

 Blunder associated with useless Experiments, which they 

 have neither understood nor explained. Being the First 

 Volume of an Original System of Physiology, adapted to 

 the advanced State of Anatomy. 8vo, 704 pages. Lon- 

 don, 1834. Smith, Elder, and Co., Cornhill. 



" With the view of adapting the work, as far as possible, 

 to the general reader as well as to the professional student, 

 the author, wherever he could, has avoided mere technicali- 

 ties, and those statements which suppose things to be known 

 which are unknown ; while he has sought to render minutiae 

 impressive, and complexities simple, by explaining the im- 

 portant and interesting functions in which they are associated. 



" Of all the objects of knowledge, the most important and 

 interesting are certainly those here considered ; the functions 

 of man, and especially those of his nervous or mental system. 

 It is, indeed, only in relation to man and his mind that aught 

 besides can possibly have [to him] even its subordinate in- 

 terest : and, until this most important branch of physiology is 

 thoroughly reformed, the very bases of moral and political 

 science will be unfixed." 



The study of zoology leads to a knowledge of comparative 

 anatomy, and comparative anatomy necessitates a knowledge 

 of the anatomy and physiology of man. Hence, not any 

 zoologist can be incurious on the subject embraced in the 

 book whose title is given above. This subject is the high and 

 difficult one of the agency of mind ; and more particularly of 

 the mode and nature of the mind's relations, passive and 

 active, to those corporeal organs which are the functional 

 instruments of its operations. The views which the author 

 has offered upon these themes are, it is advertised in the 

 title, different from those which others have offered upon 

 them. Which author has offered the most accurate ones, we 

 are unable to say : we have only seen those in the work 

 under notice. We shall content ourselves in apprising our 

 readers of the existence of the work ; and, in remarking on 

 it, that we deem it valuable, independently of the author's 

 conclusions, though the accuracy and merit of these may be 

 unequalled, in the store of information on anatomy, compara- 

 tive anatomy, and physiology, which is supplied in the pre- 

 mises from which the author has deduced his conclusions. 

 The author has written vigorously and lucidly. He condemns 

 utterly the performing of anatomical experiments upon living 



