Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1462

MARSHALL HALL (1790-1857) The principles of diagnosis. D. Appleton 1835 2nd ed. xxiv, 463 [5] pp. 21.7 cm.

Hall, a native of Nottingham, England, received his medical degree from Edinburgh. He studied abroad for a time, practiced in Nottingham for several years, and moved to London in the mid-1820s where he continued in private practice until his death. Although he had an extremely active and successful practice, he still found time to devote to serious physiological research. His most important discovery was the demonstration of reflex action and the fact that the spinal cord is composed of segments whose functional units are separate reflex arcs. Hall was a very active writer and wrote numerous papers on nervous diseases, artificial respiration, digestive diseases, and gynecology. The present work resulted from an excellent course of lectures Hall conducted at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh just after his graduation. First published in 1817, the second edition appeared in England in 1834; both helped to establish his fine reputation.