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Heirs of Hippocrates

The Development of Medicine in a Catalogue of Historic Books

Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1841

CHARLES ÉDOUARD BROWN-SéQUARD (1817-1894) Course of lectures on the physiology and pathology of the central nervous system. Collins 1860 xii, 276 pp., plates. 23.2 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 1839

Brown-Séquard's investigation of spinal cord transection in which he defines the relative function of the posterior and anterior cord sections and their relationship to other neural pathways is one of his foremost accomplishments and is explained fully in this impressive series of lectures.

Cited references: Cushing B755; Waller 1501

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