Tag: Richard Brown
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Malaria in defeat and victory
Richard J. E. Brown Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom Lab work in progress at the Royal Navy School of Malaria and Hygiene, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), 1944. IWM Non-Commercial Licence © IWM A 28167. A few weeks ago, in the reading room of the National Archives in London, I came across the war diary of a…
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Broca’s Brains: A lesson in the importance of saving the history of neuroscience
Richard Brown Halifax, NS, Canada Thalia Garvock-de Montbrun Montreal, QC, Canada Figure 1. Brain of patient (Lelong) with aphasia studied by Broca. Photo taken by Richard Brown May 2017. Recent fires at the National Museum of Brazil and at the University of Cape Town in South Africa1,2 have shown the fragility of rare books,…
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Why did Darwin drop out of medical school?
Richard Brown and Thalia Garvock-de Montbrun Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Plaque on the National Museum of Scotland where Darwin lived while studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh. Erasmus Alvey (Ras) Darwin, the elder brother of Charles Darwin, completed six months of hospital training in Edinburgh in 1825-26 and then went to London to study at…