Deseret Evening News | 1904-12-28 | Page 1 | A New Theory of Brain Development

A NEW THEORY OF O OBRAIN BRAIN Philadelphia Dec De 2 new theory of ot bus hus len been pro propounded pounded by h Dr Anthony ka of or Columbia university before the Association of ot Anatomists nt at the Uni University of ot Pennsylvania U 1 ls l In II f f feet that the the mentality Is II nut not dupon dant on 01 the relative proportion of ot white and ana gray matter mater so 10 much as Of upon the health of ot Ule great bundles of or RI s the corpus which connect the two Idel of ot the Ule brain bril In announcing his hi theory Dr Spitz i ka exhibited the bruins of ot more than a dOHn men rl who had boen boell in and In each ench endeavored enle to show that thy they bore hore out hl Tho relative of ot the th white gray matter mater In tho Is Ie often oten misconstrued II ha he p ll Were It II not for tOI the manifold connections of ot the then tle i n nerve cells In the cortex with wih each ench oth other er cr us wall 11 with wih tho Iha periphery by h means Ieans of ot tho millions and millions of ot libers Iber which make up UI tho white matter mater such a 1 bruin would be as a useless u le s as ns a n multitude of ot telephone or telegraph f destroyed d with wih nil I I The Tho IB II an Index which placed thu th of ot man eo II far tor over oer that Ih of ot the tho brute When this Ie deficient or diseased It Is In by profound w tk lk or total idiocy And AmI the ex examination of ot the brains of ot them notable men possessing 1 large capacity for fOj do luff Ing and ant thinking shows tho converse lu to be quite quie M A true