Abstract
THE announcement of the death on October 8 of Sir Henry Head at his home near Reading at the age of seventy-nine closes the career of a great neurologist. He came of an old Quaker family, was educated at Charterhouse, and in 1880 was elected to a scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge. In due course he graduated B.A. with a first class in physiology in the Natural Sciences Tripos. He then spent a period of two years at the German University of Prague and the University of Halle. His first paper was a contribution to Pflügers Archiv in 1887 on the action current of nerve, and from Hering's laboratory in Halle he published in 1889 a masterly paper on the whole question of the respiratory effects of the vagus nerve. He had himself devised a method of registration of respiration which was afterwards to become a standard method.
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