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BROWN - SEQUARD, See also:CHARLES See also:EDWARD (1817-1894), See also:British physiologist and neurologist, was See also:born at See also:Port See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis, See also:Mauritius, on the 8th of See also:April 1817. His See also:father was an See also:American and his See also:mother a Frenchwoman, but he himself always desired to be looked upon as a British subject, though in the restlessness of his See also:life and the See also:enthusiasm of his disposition, characteristics of his mother's nation were plainly visible. After graduating in See also:medicine at See also:Paris in 1846 he returned to Mauritius with the intention of practising there, but in 1852 he went to See also:America. Subsequently he returned to Paris, and in 1859 he migrated to See also:London, becoming physician to the See also:national See also:hospital for the paralysed and epileptic. There he stayed for about five years, expounding his views on the See also:pathology of the See also:nervous See also:system in numerous lectures which attracted considerable See also:attention. In 1864 he again crossed the See also:Atlantic, and was appointed See also:professor of See also:physiology and neuro-pathology at Harvard. This position he relinquished in 1867, and in 1869 became professor at the Ecole de Medecine in Paris, but in 1873 he again returned to America and began to practise in New See also:York. Finally, he went back to Paris to succeed See also:Claude See also:Bernard in 1878 as professor of experimental medicine in the See also:College de See also:France, and he remained there till his See also:death, which occurred on the 2nd of April 1894 at Sceaux. Brown-Sequard was a keen observer and experimentalist. He contributed largely to our knowledge of the See also:blood and See also:animal See also:heat, as well as many facts of the highest importance on the nervous system. He was the first scientist to See also:work out the physiology of the See also:spinal See also:cord, demonstrating that the decussation of the sensory See also:fibres is in the cord itself. He also did valuable work on the See also:internal secretion of See also:organs, the results of which have been applied with the most satisfactory results in the treatment of See also:myxoedema. Unfortunately in his extreme old See also:age, he advocated the hypodermic injection of a fluid prepared from the testicles of See also:sheep, as a means of prolonging human life. It was known, among scientists, derisively, as the Brown-Sequard See also:Elixir. His researches, published in about Soo essays and papers, especially in the Archives de Physiclogie, which he helped to found in 1868, See also:cover a very wide range of physiological and pathological subjects.
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