Journal of Postgraduate Medicine, July 1st, 2004
Swiftly the head mass becomes an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern.a shifting harmony of sub patterns.'[1 ]
These were the words used by Sir Charles Sherrington, an imminent neurophysiologist cum poet, to describe the awake brain in his lecture, "Brain and its works" at the University of Edinburgh.
Sir Charles Sherrington was born on 27 November 1857 in Islington, London. He was the son of Anne Brookes and James Norton Sherrington, of Caister, Great Yarmouth, a country physician who died when he was quite young.[2 ]
His mother married Caleb Rose J...
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