From The Archives

摘要

The quarterly issue of Brain for March 1942 contains only three papers. One is a review, not reporting original research, written by the editor, Dr FMR (Francis) Walshe (1885–1973). Walshe was an astute observer on how the nervous system works but not an experimentalist. He went to Oxford after the Great War intending to work with (Sir) Charles Sherrington (1857–1952) but found himself not well suited to laboratory work. Walshe wrote his critique of protopathic and epicritic sensation in 1921 and showed it to his neurosurgical colleague at University College Hospital, Wilfred Trotter (1872–1939), who advised against publication while (Sir) Henry Head (1861–1940) was living. The minutes of meetings of the Board of Management of the Guarantors of Brain indicate that copy was understandably short during World War II. Therefore, when Head died with Parkinson's; disease on 8 October 1940, all inhibitions were removed and the review was processed for publication.