COVER ILLUSTRATION. Left: Charles Sherrington at the door of the Old Pathology Laboratory, Cambridge in 1893 (aged 36), photographed by Dr Louis Cobbett. Centre: Sir Charles Sherrington, circa 1920s, (from Penfield W, Brain: 1957; facing p 402). Right: The last portrait (aged 93) taken in March 1950 by Allan Chappelow. 'An old man wise and fearless, from whom life has taken away the illusions but left no cynicism and to whom physiology has given the freedom from sentimentality without destroying sympathy' (from Joseph Needham, The Spectator)'. Portraits are superimposed on records from contractions of the right flexor profundus digitorum of a macacus rhesus (from Sherrington CS, Brain 1931: 54; p 24).
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