IMPORTANT WORK ON THE MENTAL ORGANIZATION 
AND FUNCTIONS OF MAN, 
COMMONLY CALLED THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN MIND. 
Just published, in one large volume, demy 8 vo. price 18s. boards. 
THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, 
ANATOMICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL: 
In which the Functions of the various Parts of 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 Doc- 
trine of Bell, Magendie, Spc. is shewn to he at once a Plagiarism, 
an Inversion, and a Blunder, associated with useless Experi- 
ments, which they have neither understood nor explained : 
BEING 
AN ORIGINAL SYSTEM OF PHYSIOLOGY, 
ADAPTED TO THE ADVANCED STATE OF ANATOMY. 
By ALEXANDER WALKER, 
AUTHOR OF “ PHYSIOGNOMY FOUNIJED ON PHYSIOLOGY,” &C. &C. 
Of all the subjects 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 even its subordinate 
interest. And until this most important branch of physiology is thoroughly 
reformed, the very bases of literary, moral, and political science will be 
unfixed. . , 
A recent professional writer observes, that “ there is no subject in the 
vast range of medical science, which carries with it so much interest, as 
that of the brain and nervous system ; nor is there one which has so com- 
pletely baffled the genius of the most celebrated Physiologists. ' 
In the Report also presented to the British Association assembled at 
Cambridge in 1833, Dr. Henry designates a small portion of the discoveries 
contained in this work, and made exclusively by its author, as “ doubtless 
the most important accession to physiological knowledge since the time of 
Harvey.'’ . . 
But, in addition to this, the work contains many views and discoveries 
of functions of far higher importance : as of the functions of the sensorial 
expansions within the brain; of the free expansions or vela, septa, &c. as the 
organ of perception ; of the convolutions, as the organ of memory ; of the m- 
tcrconvolutional bundles, as the organ of association ; of the great commis- 
sure, as the organ of combining and of ideas ; of the cerebral arch, as the organ 
(f comparing and of emotions; of the cerebellic ring, as the organ of determin- 
ing and of passions; of the ventricles, as the organ of consciousness; of the 
cerebral glands, &c. as the organ of sleep ; and numerous others of great 
originality and value. 
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 technicalities, and those statements which suppose 
things to be known which are unknown, while he sought to render minutiae 
impressive and complexities simple, by explaining the important and in- 
teresting functions in which they are associated. 
SMITH, ELDER AND CO., CORNI11LL, LONDON. 
