An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

Chemical Pathology of the Brain [Dr. Forbes Winslow on Insanity]

"Chemical Pathology of the Brain [Dr. Forbes Winslow on Insanity]." New York Saturday Press, March 19, 1859, 1.
Type
newspaper
Genre
journalism
Abstract

Chemical and pathological research has led to a new discovery that in certain depressed conditions of cerebral power, a minimum amount of phosphorous has been detected in the brain, however, lesser brains have been found to be entirely destitute of this chemical agent.