Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Diseases of the Nervous System

  • William Richard Gowers MD., FRS.

    JMS Pearce Hull, England   Fig. 1 Gowers’ Manual. A Manual of Diseases of the Nervous System. J London: J. & A. Churchill 1886 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…

  • Hammond, Lincoln, and the emergence of American neurology

    Jack Riggs Morgantown, West Virginia, United States   Surgeon General William A. Hammond. Public domain. 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…