PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION 



THE laboratory course in neurology which is here outlined 

 has grown up in the University of Chicago during the past 

 twenty years. Many teachers have participated in this work 

 and all of these have contributed something of value to the 

 procedure now in use. Acknowledgments cannot be made 

 here to all from whom valuable help has been received; but 

 especial mention should be made of the initial program laid out 

 in 1900 by Doctors Barker and Kyes when they were suddenly 

 confronted with the problem of teaching the anatomy of the 

 brain to a very large class of medical students with practically 

 no equipment and a very limited amount of anatomical material 

 (see the paper by Barker and Kyes cited in the appended Bib- 

 liography) . The large measure of success which they attained 

 should encourage other teachers whose laboratory equipment 

 is inadequate. 



Later Doctors Donaldson and Hardesty elaborated this 

 course, and when the direction of the work was assumed by the 

 senior author in 1907 he received valuable assistance from Doc- 

 tor Elizabeth H. Dunn in reorganizing the course into the form 

 out of which the present Outline has grown. Professor G. W. 

 Bartelmez has also contributed freely from his own extensive 

 experience. In the year 1915 the Outline was thoroughly 

 revised and privately printed by the authors. In the present 

 work it has been again revised and recast in more general form, 

 which it is hoped may be found more widely useful. 



The fundamental purpose of the procedure here outlined is to 

 assist the student as early in his course as possible to formulate 

 his knowledge of the nervous system in terms of the functional 

 significance of the parts. Free use has been made of the 

 methods of functional analysis of the central nervous system 

 which have been developed, chiefly in American laboratories, 

 under the stimulating guidance of researches upon the func- 

 tional composition of the peripheral nerves; and the experience 



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