Brain Vol. 127 No. 10 © Guarantors of Brain 2004; all rights reserved
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Editorial
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In Wherefore to explicate the uses of the brain (page 2373), William Feindel reviews Soul Made Flesh: the Discovery of the Brainand How It Changed the World by Carl Zimmer. This is an account of that astonishing period in the late 17th century when neuroscience moved from the theoretical to the empirical, and the word neurology was coined. It is the story of Thomas Willis. Languishing for over two centuries in the doldrums of a second class reputation, based on the waspish