Early Illustrations of the Nervous System by Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal | The Public Domain Review

“In 1906, Golgi and Ramón y Cajal were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and invited to share the stage in Stockholm. “The expectation was”, Finger writes, “that Golgi would talk about the stain that allowed scientists to see neurons better than ever before” and Cajal would “describe the studies that led him to neuron doctrine”. However …”

Read the Article | The Public Domain Review

Thumbnail Image:

Plate XVI. Part of a vertical section through the human pes Hippocampi major

Date 1885 SourceGolgi, C. Sulla fina anatomia degli organi centrali del sistema nervoso. Reggio-Emilia: S. Calderini e Figlio; 1885. Reprinted in: On the fine structure of the pes Hippocampi major (with plates XIII–XXIII). Brain Research Bulletin, Vol. 54, No. 5, p. 476 (2001)

Camillo Golgi, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons