Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2059

DAVID FERRIER (1843-1928) The functions of the brain. Smith, Elder 1876 xv, 323 pp., illus. 23 cm.

Educated at Aberdeen and Edinburgh, Ferrier was chiefly associated with the National Hospital and medical school of King's College during his long and illustrious career. In addition to being a charter member of the Physiological Society, he joined with John Hughlings Jackson (see No. 2001), Sir John Bucknill, and Sir James Crichton-Browne in founding Brain. Dedicated to Jackson, the father of English neurology, this work furnished the link between Hughlings Jackson and the later work on cerebral cortical localization by Sir Charles Sherrington (see No. 2198) and others at the turn of the century. This classic book summarizes the fundamental and startling new facts experimentally demonstrated by this remarkable neurophysiologist.

See Related Record(s): 2001 2198

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 1409

Gift of John Martin, M.D.