Tag: Diseases of the Nervous System
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William Richard Gowers MD., FRS.
JMS PearceHull, England The name Gowers is a name hallowed in the minds of most neurologists as one of the great founders of neurological medicine in the Victorian era. He is probably best remembered for his A Manual of Diseases of the Nervous System (1886) (Fig 1.), a rich source of wisdom and clinical description…
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Hammond, Lincoln, and the emergence of American neurology
Jack RiggsMorgantown, West Virginia, United States All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts.– William Shakespeare Shakespeare’s words describe the extraordinary life of William Alexander Hammond.1-8 LC McHenry, a historian of neurology, dubbed Hammond…