Show Experimenting With the Brain That the brain should be subjected to direct physiological experiment was until modern times never attempted During the last generation only has the practicability practi-cability of this been demonstrated and numerous observers have by direct I operations on the brain substance of animals ani-mals arrived at new conclusions and I greatly revolutionized our ancient conceptions i i con-ceptions on the subject Evidence has also been given that the brain may be handled irritated or partially destroyed without necessary danger to life This important knowledge has been arrived at by an extended series of experiments conducted on living animals in which by observing the several effects of stimulating stimu-lating destroying limited areas of their I brains the different functions of these i special localities have been determined A topography of the cerebrum has thus been constructed in which the various I faculties have been mapped out but these unlike the illogical visions ot the j i phrenologists have stood the test of skepticism and rigid experimental inquiry I I Nature S |