Degeneration & Regeneration of the Nervous System. Two volumes

Cajal, Santiago Ramon y.

Hafner Publishing Company, 1968

1968, Second Printing. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good bindings and covers. Shelf wear. Owner's name stamped on edges and front end pages. xx, 769 pages, illustrations, portrait, 24 cm. 

Santiago Ramon y Cajal was a Spanish histologist who (with Camillo Golgi) received the 1906 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for establishing the neuron, or nerve cell, as the basic unit of nervous structure. This finding was instrumental in the recognition of the neuron's fundamental role in nervous function and in gaining a modern understanding of the nerve impulse. 

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