Morabito C
Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Roma.
Nuncius. 1996;11(1):55-91.
This article starts with the description of a medical case: the removal of a brain tumor carried out in 1886 in London at the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic. This medical case is recorded in the Casebooks that today can be found in the archive of the hospital. Firstly, there is the description of the patient's state of health and of the intracranical surgery performed by Victor Horsley who referred himself to David Ferrier's cortical maps. Secondly, there is the reconstruction of the theoretical path that led Ferrier, in the 1870s, to prove on an experimental basis the existence of different localised cerebral functions in specific cortical areas. These cerebral localizations are then compared with the model that, at the beginning of the century, contained their first theoretical seed: the Organology of Franz Joseph Gall.
1886年在伦敦国立瘫痪和癫痫医院进行的一例脑肿瘤切除手术。这个医疗案例记录在病例簿中，如今可以在该医院的档案中找到。首先，描述了患者的健康状况以及由维克多·霍斯利进行的颅内手术，霍斯利参考了大卫·费里尔的皮质图谱。其次，重构了在19世纪70年代引导费里尔通过实验证明特定皮质区域存在不同局部脑功能的理论路径。然后将这些脑定位与本世纪初包含其最初理论萌芽的模型进行比较：弗朗茨·约瑟夫·加尔的器官学。
