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(History of Neuroscience. No. 7.) By Santiago Ramón y Cajal. 1611 pp. in two volumes, illustrated. New York, Oxford University Press, 1995. $195. ISBN 0-19-507401-7.

In the dynamic world of cellular neuroscience today, dominated as it is by single-channel kinetics and molecular neurobiology, the very word "histology" seems dry and static. Yet this new translation of the classic work by Santiago Ramón y Cajal is a poignant reminder that histology need not be dull.

In the late 19th century, many prominent investigators believed that the central nervous system was a syncytium or network of nerve cells (the reticular theory). The concept of the neuron doctrine — which postulated distinct neurons with axons, dendrites, and discrete connections — although it had proponents, was not yet well . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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