“It is not often that two physiologists agree in matters relating to the physiology of the brain.”--_Ibid._, p. 9.
“I do not by any means claim that my researches can be of any value in themselves for the pathology of the human brain. Let the pathologists continue steadily to collect facts, then the apparent contradictions between the experiments on animals and the observations at the bedside will soon be reconciled.”--_Ibid._, p. 176.
“The fact that both in tortoises and in toads, the extirpation of the cerebellum and the superior two-thirds of the bulbus _does not abolish_ the sense of equilibrium, proves that the too widely generalised theory of Goltz which localises this sense in the cerebellum, as also that of Vulpian, who in the inferior vertebrates, places the seat of this sense in the part corresponding to the annular protuberance of the superior vertebrates, are both equally inexact.--Florence, June, 1883.”--FANO, “_Recherches expérimentales sur un nouveau centre automatique dans le tractus bulbo-spinal._”--_Arch. ital. de Biol._, Vol. III., p. 368.
“It is self evident, that Goltz’s experience, when quoted against the localizations of functions in the cortex of the brain is of no worth.”… (p. 11). “Professor Goltz’s assumption that irritation sets up inhibitory processes, having their seat in the cerebrum, which cause, through paralysis of certain centres situated in the cerebellum and its connections, all the non-permanent disturbances,--this assumption is inadmissible” (p. 13).--Munk, _Ueber die Functionen der Grosshirn-Rinde._
“After I had laid bare the bone behind the ear of the pigeon, I bored out, bit by bit, with the help of a sharp hollow chisel, the ear labyrinths on both sides of the head. The bleeding caused by this operation is very considerable. In those cases where I endeavoured to destroy entirely both labyrinths, the birds died soon after the operation with violent rolling movements or somersaults. For this reason I afterwards contented myself with breaking out pieces of the superficial canals. Many of the thus injured birds I have kept alive a long time, and especially two which I had operated upon half a year ago, and which I exhibited at the Congress of Naturalists at Innspruck on 21st September, 1869.”--Pflüger’s _Archiv._, Vol. III., pp. 177-78.