Abstract
On the eve of the VIth World Congress of Neurology held in Brussels in 1957, Wilder Penfield opened an Anglo-American Symposium in London on the history and philosophy of the brain and its functions with a Hippocratic preamble. In this lecture Penfield [1] quoted a personal communication from Dr. Gordon Holmes as follows: “The claim of Hippocrates that knowledge comes only from direct observation, observation controlled by experiment, remains today the essential basis of our science.”
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Penfield W (1958) Hippocratic preamble: the brain and intelligence. In: Poynter FNL (ed) The history and philosophy of the brain and its functions. Blackwell Scientific, Oxford, p 3
Riese W (1959) A history of neurology. MD Publications, New York, p 171
Schoenberg BS (1982) Hypothesis testing in neuroepidemiology: experiments of nature and experiments of man. Neuroepidemiology 1: 85–101
Tower DB (1978) Neurological epidemiology: an introductory perspective. Adv Neurol 19: 1
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1986 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Schulte, B.P.M. (1986). Neuroepidemiology as the Basis of Scientific Clinical Neurology. In: Poeck, K., Freund, HJ., Gänshirt, H. (eds) Neurology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70007-1_27
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70007-1_27
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-70009-5
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-70007-1
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive