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Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard The Biography of a Tormented Genius /

Genius and dilettantism often go hand in hand. Nowhere is this truer than in the life of Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard, the bilingual physician and neurologist who succeeded Claude Bernard as the Chair of Experimental Medicine at the College de France in Paris after having practiced in Paris, London...

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Main Author: Celestin, Louis-Cyril. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Subjects:
Medicine—History.
Neurology .
History of Medicine.
Neurology.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03020-3
Table of Contents:
  • Physiology in the Nineteenth Century
  • The Birthplace
  • The Forebears
  • The Formative Years: 1817-1837
  • The Medical Student: 1838-1846
  • The Lone Experimenter: 1846-1851
  • The Visitor to America: 1852-1853
  • The Cholera Physician: 1854
  • The Richmond Professor: 1854-1855
  • The Paris Practitioner: 1856-1857
  • The Itinerant Lecturer: 1856-1859
  • The London Consultant Neurologist: 1860-1864
  • The Harvard Professor: 1864-1867
  • The Paris Course Lecturer: 1869-1872
  • The New York Practitioner: 1872-1874
  • The Indigent Physician: 1874-1877
  • The College de France Professor: 1878-1894
  • The Father of Hormonal Therapy: 1889-1893
  • The Last Years: 1892-1894.

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