Golgi

“Regardless of what he called it, it is clear that Golgi saw the neuron as composed of a single axon exiting a cell body laden with dendrites. For him, though, dendrites did not wait like tentacles of a jellyfish for stimulation but somehow nurtured the neuronal cell body. Just as clearly, he believe that the fibrils of the cylindraxis he found on axonal branches were all part of a reticular network that connected the nervous system. These tiny fibrils were, Golgi thought, lacework that hooked up every cell to every other” (Rapport, 88). “[Golgi’s] most extraordinary contribution would be the discovery that neurons could be stained by silver nitrate [the black reaction], an insight that very soon paved the way for even greater breakthroughs in neuroscience” (93).