The Laboratory of the Nervous System Conrad Eckhard is not a painter, but a German physiologist and physician whose life unfolded within the rigorous confines of medical research and anatomical study. Born in 1822 in Homberg (Efze), Electorate of Hesse, his path leads through the lecture halls of Berlin and Marburg. The scene shifts to 1848, where he finds himself working as a prosector under Franz Ludwig Fick and an assistant to Carl…