The Story of the Brain in 10½ Cells
By Richard Wingate
Wellcome Collection £14.99
Nearly 50 years ago, I took a taxi to a psychiatric hospital in London.
The driver remained silent during the journey: maybe he thought that he had a dangerous lunatic in his cab. But no, he had been cogitating. As we arrived, he turned to me and said, ‘You know, mate, there’s something very mental about the brain.’
Quite so -
