‘How The Brain Got Its Buttocks,’ Or, The Dirty Little Minds Of The First Neuroanatomists

“These ‘historians of neuroanatomy’ (yes, there is such a profession, and we should be grateful for it) reviewed a very old, circuitous medical literature and found that the human brain was once described as comprising its very own vulva, penis, testicles, buttocks, and even an anus. In fact, part of the cerebrum is still named in honor of long-forgotten whores.”