Legacy
Nissl was possibly the greatest neuropathologist of his day and also a fine clinician who popularised the use of spinal puncture, which had been introduced by Heinrich Quincke.
Nissl also examined the neural connections between the human cortex and thalamic nuclei; he was in the midst of this study at the time of his death.
An example of his research philosophy is taken from his 1896 writings:
- As soon as we agree to see in all mental derangements the clinical expression of definite disease processes in the cortex, we remove the obstacles that make impossible agreement among alienists.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)