Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: physiology of nervous disease

  • Sir Francis Walshe MD FRS

    JMS PearceEast Yorks, UK Francis Martin Rouse Walshe (1885-1973) (Fig 1) was a remarkable man, that rare mixture of clinician and student of basic science. He was always in pursuit of the mechanisms and physiology of nervous disease, always questioning received dogma, and always critical of sloppy thinking and writing. Born in London of Irish…