Santiago Ramon y Cajal (1852-1934), working in their respective
countries of Italy and Spain at the end of the nineteenth and begin-
ning of the twentieth centuries (Fig. 2.16). Golgi and Ramon y Cajal
spent thousands of hours looking at slices of brain tissue under micro-
scopes and drawing in exquisite detail what they saw. Both were using
a technique for staining neurons developed by Golgi in 1873.
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