PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Tyler, H. Richard
AU  - Tyler, K. L.
TI  - Charles Édouard Brown‐Séquard
AID  - 10.1212/WNL.34.9.1231
DP  - 1984 Sep 01
TA  - Neurology
PG  - 1231--1231
VI  - 34
IP  - 9
4099  - http://n.neurology.org/content/34/9/1231.short
4100  - http://n.neurology.org/content/34/9/1231.full
SO  - Neurology1984 Sep 01; 34
AB  - Brown-Séquard's career as Harvard's first professor of the physiology and pathology of the nervous system is chronicled in a unique and previously unpublished series of his private letters and university archival material. At Harvard, Brown-Séquard tried to modernize the curriculum by adding laboratory exercises and animal experiments in the teaching of physiology. He dreamed of constructing a great physiologic institute to study fundamental problems in neurology, including epilepsy, paralysis, muscular atrophy, nerve injuries, and a wide variety of other problems. His letters reveal Brown-Séquard as a disarmingly “modern” professor who avoided faculty meetings, complained constantly about lecture schedules, his salary, and the improper care of his animals—and threatened to resign regularly!