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2 unusual facts about Edward Flatau


Edward Flatau

Flatau became a medical doctor in 1892 and spent the years 1893 to 1899 in Berlin in the laboratories of Emanuel Mendel (1839–1907), Wilhelm von Waldeyer-Hartz (1836–1921), Alfred Goldscheider (1858–1935), and Ernst Viktor von Leyden (1832–1910).

With the Berlin neurobiologist Johannes Gad he performed experimental work on dogs and criticised Bastian-Bruns Law concerning the loss of function following spinal cord injury (1893).


Louis Jacobsohn-Lask

In 1899 Jacobsohn and Edward Flatau wrote Handbuch der Anatomie und vergleichenden Anatomie des Centralnervensystems der Säugetiere, which included one of first attempts to classify sulci and gyri of human brain cortex.


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