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He was educated in the College of the City of New York and obtained his medical degree in 1902 from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University.
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Excerpt from A Study of the Brain-Weights of Men Notable in the Professions, Arts and Sciences That the very slow accumulation of brain-weights of distinguished men, or of successful members of the liberal professions, has contributed to the exist ing diversities Of Opinion concerning the significance of the weight of the. Brain in its relations to the in telligence is clear to anyone familiar with recent essays on the subject. Particularly disconcerting to some writers has been the not infrequent occur rence of unusually heavy brains in idiotic persons, While' certain lo-w brain weights Of men ranking high in intelligence have prompted not a few anatomists and anthropologists - not content to defer judgment until a sufficient number of data had been collected - to make the flat assertion that the weight of the brain is absolutely unrelated to the psychical facul ties. It were indeed strange if we had thus to over throw the' general principles governing the func tions Of the brain as an apparatus Of thought. Aside, from the well-established proofs of the interdepend ence of. Brain-size and intelligence in the animal series, there exist the very convincing craniological studies Of Ranke, Manouvrier, Virchow and manyothers, pointing in no uncertain way to a decided relation between the cranial capacities of men and their psychical powers. If, as Broca has shown, the skulls of modern Pari-sians are larger than those Of the seventh century, if the cranial capacity of townspeople is, as a rule, greater than that of the peasants of the environs and if the heads of university. Students have been found to be on the average greatest and growing for the longest time in the group of most successful men (venn), it would certainly seem that the size of the brain assumes relatively speaking, that signi fincance due this organof mind quite as much as for example, the large size of the vestibular nerve in the cetacea and phocid'ae relates to their remarka blv skilful 'equilibri-stic movements. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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He was educated in the College of the City of New York and obtained his medical degree in 1902 from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University.
He was educated in the College of the City of New York and obtained his medical degree in 1902 from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University.
He was assistant demonstrator of anatomy at Columbia University, 1905-06, and then became professor of general anatomy at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa.
He was made director and professor of anatomy at the Daniel Baugh Institute of Anatomy at Jefferson Medical College in 1911, but in 1914 he resigned to take up the practice of nervous and mental diseases in New York.
Spitzka was assistant demonstrator of anatomy at Columbia University, 1905-06, and then became professor of general anatomy at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was made director and professor of anatomy at the Daniel Baugh Institute of Anatomy at Jefferson Medical College in 1911, but in 1914 he resigned to take up the practice of nervous and mental diseases in New York.
Upon the entry of the United States into the World War, he went to a medical officers' training camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. After being assigned to duty at Camp Grant, he was promoted to the grade of lieutenant-colonel and in the summer of 1918 was sent to France in command of the sanitary train of the 86th Division.
When he was discharged from the army in the following year he returned to practice in New York. A life full of early promise and of frustrated achievement had its tragic culmination three years later in his sudden death from cerebral hemorrhage at his home in Mount Vernon, New York. At the time of his death in 1922 he held the position of medical referee with the United States Veterans' Bureau.
His most important contributions to medicine are his studies upon the human brain. These include notable studies of the size and structure of the brains of Japanese, Eskimos, and certain South Sea islanders, observations on electrocution and its effects, and studies of the brains of criminals and of noted men. Edward Anthony Spitzka was particularly interested in the anatomical variations in the brains of criminals, made a detailed studies of the brain. He made other notable studies upon the morphology of the ductless glands, wrote on Resuscitation of Persons Shocked by Electricity (1909), and edited the eighteenth American edition of Henry Gray's Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied (1910), which is a lasting monument to his memory.
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He had a special interest as well in the evolutionary development of the nervous system, which he studied comparatively in the primates and in the higher mammals.
In his chosen work he had the accuracy and the zeal of the investigator together with the broader and deeper interest of the cultural scientist, and his studies show marked originality.
He was tall and of heavy, powerful build.
Though he was inclined to be melancholic and reticent of speech, with little inclination for ordinary social activities, he displayed when he was interested an unexpectedly good command of language, and had a gift for intimate friendships.
On June 20, 1906, he was married to Alice Eberspacher of New York.
