1. Ramón y Cajal, S. (1901, 1917) Recuerdos de mi vida (Vol. 1, Mi infancia y juventud; Vol. 2, Historia de mi labor cientı́fica), Moya, Madrid, Spain. This book was first published in English in 1937 as Recollections of My Life (translated by E. Horne Craigie, with the assistance of J. Cano), American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA, USA; a 1989 MIT Press edition is currently available (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA)
2. Ramón y Cajal's father, Justo Ramón Casasús, ‘a pure-blooded Aragonese’, was ‘a modest surgeon at the time’. He was ‘a man of great energy, an extraordinarily hard worker, and full of noble ambition’ 1.
3. Ramón y Cajal, S. (1899, 1904) Textura del Sistema Nervioso del Hombre y de los Vertebrados, Moya, Madrid, Spain. The first and second volumes of this book were published in English in 1999 and 2000 as Texture of the Nervous System of Man and the Vertebrates (translated and edited, with addition from the French version, by P. Pasik and T. Pasik), Springer-Verlag. The publication in English of the third volume is due in 2001.
4. Ramón y Cajal, S. (1909, 1911) Histologie du Système Nerveux de l'Homme et des Vertébrés (French edition reviewed and updated by the author, translated from Spanish by L. Azoulay), Maloine, Paris, France. This book was published in English in 1995 as Histology of the Nervous System of Man and Vertebrates (translated by N. Swanson and L.W. Swanson), Oxford University Press
5. ‘A declaration of the unity and independence of the neuron and all its processes. Nerve cells always remain free, independent, and individual, and are the fundamental unit of the nervous system as a whole. Nerve impulse transmission from neuron to neuron is by contact rather than continuity’.