ABSTRACT
Since August 1997, we have been summarizing, with the collaboration of C. U. M. Smith and Edward G. Jones, the roots and history of some terms used in neuro-sciences, emphasizing their evolution and changes as the years or even centuries went by. Our previous columns might therefore lead the reader to consider the scientific, in this case neurological terminology as a neverending updating of terms that had been coined by previous researchers. This time we choose a counter-example, Reissner’s fibre, which was discovered by Ernest Reissner in 1860, and surprisingly never received any other name since that time.
