Sir DAVID FERRIER (1843-1928). The functions of the brain. London: 1876

Educated at Aberdeen and Edinburgh, Ferrier was chiefly associated with the National
Hospital and medical school of King’s College during his long and illustrious career.

In addition to being a charter member of the Physiological Society, he joined with John Hughlings Jackson, Sir John Bucknill, and Sir James Crichton-Browne in founding Brain.

Dedicated to Jackson, the father of English neurology, The functions of the brain furnished the link between Hughlings Jackson and the later work on cerebral cortical localization by Sir Charles Sherrington and others at the turn of the century. This classic book summarizes the fundamental and startling new facts experimentally demonstrated by Ferrier.