Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard

Abstract

CHARLES-EDOUARD BROWK-SEQUARD was one of the great men of nineteenth-century experimental physiology in France. His earliest discovery, probably his greatest, was that of the crossing of sensory impulses in the spinal cord. This is commemorated in neurology by the.‘Brown-Sequard syndrome’, a complex known to every physician and student. He did pioneer work on vasomotor nerves and on the adrenals. Throughout his life he was an indefatigable worker and, although he achieved great fame as a consulting neurologist and might have had great fortune, he directed all his energies to his experiments. Even when his qualities were recognized by appointment to a chair at the College de France, he was inclined to neglect teaching for research. Charles-Edouard Brown-Sequard, a Nineteenth Century Neurologist and Endocrinologist By Prof. J. M. B. Olmsted. (Publications of the Institute of the History of Medicine, the Johns Hopkins University, Third Series: The Hideyo Koguchi Lectures, Vol. 5.) Pp. vii + 253. (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1946.) 3 dollars.