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Great Quotes in Neuroscience

Simon Schultz schultz at axp01.mrc-bbc.ox.ac.uk
Wed May 22 03:26:15 EST 1996


Here's another good one:

"When the weather is myelde and calme, and the Countrey temperate, I 
myslike not (as touchinge healthynesse of body) shavingeg of the crowne 
of the head. For thereby grosse vapours which hurt the Memory have more 
scope and liberty to evaporate and fume out."
						Levitus Lemnius (1561)

Lemnius, L. 1561, The touchstone of complexions. Translated R. Hunter & 
I. Macalpine, eds, 1963, Three Hundred Years of Psychiatry: 1535-1860, 
Oxford University Press, Oxford.

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