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Brown-Séquard, Charles Édouard

Port Louis (Mauritius)
08.04.1817

Paris / Sceaux, near Paris
02.04.1894

Degrees: M.D., University of Paris, 1846
Career: Studied medicine, University of Paris; 1846 M.D., same institution; then assistant to Pierre Rayer at the Hôpital de la Charité, Paris; 1852 private practice in Boston; 1854 professor at the College of Medicine, University of Richmond; 1856 lecturer, University of Boston; 1859-63, head of the National hospital for the paralysed and epileptics, London; 1864-67, professor of physiology and pathology, Harvard University; 1867 returned to Paris; 1869 professor of comparative and experimental anatomy, University of Paris; 1870-1871 founded a physiological laboratory in New York; 1872-1878 lecturer in Boston, London, Dublin and Paris; 1878 succeeded Claude Bernard as professor of medicine, Collège de France, Paris.
Selected works: Brown-Séquard, Ch. E. 1850. Mémoire sur la transmission des impressions sensitives dans la moelle épinière. Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Sciences 31: 700-701 Brown-Séquard, Charles-Edouard. 1851. De la survie des batraciens et des tortures après l'ablation de leur moelle allongée. Gazette médicale de Paris 6: 476-477 Brown-Séquard, Charles-Edouard. 1852. Experimental researches applied to physiology and pathology. Philadelphia Medical Examiner 8: 481-504 Brown-Séquard, Charles-Edouard. 1855. Experimental and Clinical Researches on the Physiology and Pathology of the Spinal Cord and some Other Parts of the Nervous Centres. Richmond: Colin & Nowlan [part of: Müller Library] Brown-Séquard, Ch. E. 1862. Remarques sur l'action du nerf vague sur le coeur. Journal de la physiologie de l'homme et des animaux 5: 295-296
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