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It was in the 1860s when Paul Broca came on the scene (Fig. 2). By then, despite the critics, some physicians, like Bouillaud [11], remained steadfast in support of the principle, at least about speech and the anterior lobes. Broca [12] himself, while doubting the feasibility of “constructing a detailed system of localization” like Gall’s, credited Gall with the “incontestable merit of proclaiming the great principle of cerebral localization” (p 191). That he also accepted the law of symmetry becomes clear in his reports on his soon-to-be-famous patient, Louis Victor Leborgne (whose full name we finally know, thanks to Cezary Domanski [13]).

Fig. 2. Paul Broca (1824–1880). Wellcome Library. Public Domain.