Ferrier Lecture - Some observations on the cerebral cortex of man

No greater honour could come to a Canadian surgeon than to be asked to give the Ferrier Lecture. But I reaIze that this invitation is rather a tribute to your associates across the Atlantic and a recognition of the fact that observations made in the operating room may have a value which is equal scientifically to those made in the laboratory. From a personal point of view, having received a major portion of my medical education in this country, I welcome the opportunity of paying tribute to English men of medicine and science. One of the most distinguished among them, at the close of the last century, was Sir David Ferrier, in whose memory his colleagues have founded this lectureship. He was an outstanding neurologist, psychologist and physiologist. But he was also the principal prophet of the surgery of the brain.