The Structure of the Retina

Santiago Ramon y Cajal

Charles C. Thomas, 1972

[Cajal's Complete Works on the Vertebrate Retina] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Owner's name stamped on edges and front end page, else unmarked. xxxix, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. 

"Cajal systematically describes the retina in all five classes of vertebrates and cogently discusses the histological methods used for the study of retinal structure. Individual chapters on the retina of fish, frogs, reptiles, birds, and mammals are included as well as chapters dealing with the fovea centralis and the development of retinal cells." 

Santiago Ramon y Cajal was a Spanish histologist who (with Camillo Golgi) received the 1906 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for establishing the neuron, or nerve cell, as the basic unit of nervous structure. This finding was instrumental in the recognition of the neuron's fundamental role in nervous function and in gaining a modern understanding of the nerve impulse.