RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Charles Édouard Brown‐Séquard
JF Neurology
JO Neurology
FD Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
SP 1231
OP 1231
DO 10.1212/WNL.34.9.1231
VO 34
IS 9
A1 Tyler, H. Richard
A1 Tyler, K. L.
YR 1984
UL http://n.neurology.org/content/34/9/1231.abstract
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first professor of the physiology and pathology of the nervous system is chronicled in a unique and previously unpublished series of his private letters and university archival material.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!