Quoted by Micheal Finn, 'The West Riding Lunatic Asylum and the making of the modern brain sciences in the nineteenth century', University of Leeds PhD thesis (2012).
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'Crichton-Browne made the brain the centre of the asylum's work while he was there [the West Riding Lunatic Asylum], and built a programme of research that attempted to link the mental and physical conditions of insanity with the specific appeearances of the brain. He wrote that 'it was the structure of the brain and nervous system, their histology, their responses to electrical stimulation, their degenerative changes, their abridgement of function by destruction of parts, that mainly occupied our attention.'' (134)

'At Wakefield, Crichton-Browne was... engaged in his own quest to turn his provincial asylum into a school of scientific research on insanity and the brain. At that time, he later noted,

Gratiolet had just identified the cerebral convolutions, Broca had localized aphasia; Brown-Sequard had produced artificial epilepsy; Gowers had demonstrated the syphilitic origin of locomotor ataxia; Duchenne had traced muscular atrophy to the motor tract; Darwin was dominant; George Lewes, Herbert Spencer and, above all, Maudsley had just entered the field; [and] Lockhart Clarke had begun his microscopical examinations[.]

' (139)