Artigo Acesso aberto Revisado por pares

Charles Edouard Brown-Sequard (1818-94)

1998; BMJ; Volume: 64; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1136/jnnp.64.1.89

ISSN

1468-330X

Autores

L F Haas,

Tópico(s)

Medical History and Innovations

Resumo

Brown-Sequard, the son of an American sea captain and a French woman, was born on the island of Mauritius. Mauritius had formerly been French but it was British at the time of Brown-Sequard’s birth, making him a British subject. He practised at varying times in Paris, Mauritius, London, and New York. He remained longer (four and a half years) at The National Hospital in London of which he was a founder physician, than at any other place or in any other post until 14 years later when he succeeded Claude Bernard in his final appointment as …

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