[BEKHTEREV, Vladimir] BECHTEREW, Dr. W. v. Die funktionen der nervencentra. Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1908
FIRST EDITION IN GERMAN., 3 vols. 8vo., ix, 691, [1]; viii, [693]-1336; x, [1337]-2047 pp.
With numerous illustrations and photographs throughout. Half-morocco over marbled boards, rebacked; an excellent set., First edition in German of the author's fundamental textbook on the brain and spinal cord. Bekhterev (1857-1927), the prolific neurologist and social psychologist, studied at the Military Medical Academy of St. Petersburg the same time as Pavlov, obtaining his doctorate in 1881 and returning in 1893 as a professor of psychic and nervous diseases. Among his many accomplishments, he founded the first experimental psychology laboratory at the University of Kazan in 1885 and the Psychoneurological Institute in 1908, which has since been renamed in his honor. He described the large bundles of the brain stem and the pia mater nodes of the base of the brains; studied and described the reticular formation in 1885, and established the precise location of the taste center within the brain cortex in 1900.
$US1500
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