Wilder, Neural Terms. 233 



with synonyms and references ('90, Ji). The vessels, fissures 

 and gyres were estimated at 140, and Hsts of them were pub- 

 lished at various periods ('85, e, f, g ; '?)6, g). 



^66. This made a total of about 340 parts or features of 

 the central nervous system the designations of which I had se- 

 lected or framed from among the vast accumulation of available 

 terms. These names had already been found serviceable in the 

 research and instruction carried on under my direction ; and 

 they were embodied in the articles on the gross anatomy of the 

 brain ('89, a, b, c ; '93, a, b, c) ; and questions involved in their 

 adoption were discussed at length in " Anatomical Terminol- 

 ogy " (W. & G., '89). 



ySj. V. 1 895 -1 896. Among the requirements of tech- 

 nical terms enumerated in 1871 was "Independence of Context 

 for Signification." The rigid application of this would exclude 

 all homonyms (1523,) and would require every term to be 

 absolutely explicit. It was perhaps not unnatural for a com- 

 parative beginner in the subject to make such a rule, and, hav- 

 ing made it, to adhere to it somewhat persistently as in the 

 following cases (§§68-70). 



%6^. Of the three current appellations, conarhim, epiphy- 

 sis and corpus pineale, the last was rejected unhesitatingly as a 

 polyonym, and the second as applying equally (without the 

 qualifier cerebri') to the separable end of a growing bone ; as 

 recently acknowledged ('96, b) I long resisted the precept and 

 example of H. F. Osborn and E. C. Spitzka in favor of epiph- 

 ysis as correlative with hypophysis, and failed to recognize the 

 full force of Ball's remark, "The human mind wearies of too 

 many names and much more readily assimilates a new meaning 

 for an old one," although it was printed as Aphorism XV in 

 W. & G., '89, p. 520. 



§69. Likewise, although favoring the general plan of ren- 

 dering the Latin ae and oe by e in Anglicised (paronymized) 

 words, ^ I retained the diphthong in coelia and its compounds 



^In this country no medical writer has more persistently and vigorously 

 urged this simplification than the former editor of the (Phil.) Medical News 

 Gould, G. M., '94. '96. 



