Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: A Treatise on the Chemical Constitution of the Brain

  • JLW Thudichum: neglected “Father of neurochemistry”

    JMS PearceHull, England, United Kingdom Knowledge of diseases of the nervous system reflects an understanding of the basic sciences of neural mechanisms and organization. In the last decade of the nineteenth century, the Nobel prizewinners Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal founded the neuron doctrine, and Charles Scott Sherrington explained the propagation of the…