Brown-Séquard
Subtitle: an improbable genius : the professor whose fantasies transformed medicine and broadened the horizons of neuroscience
By: Michael J. Aminoff
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199742639
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : the death of a professor; title: At home in Mauritius; title: A medical student in Paris; title: Great expectations; title: The physics of the circulation : why we don't faint on standing and get bedsores on lying still for too long; title: Fame in the making; title: Fame and fortune in Britain : a piece of cake; title: Broken dreams and promises; title: Musical chairs; title: Thoughts about the brain; title: The disease of devils and demons; title: The magnificent maverick; title: A new system of medicine; title: Scenes from the world of a scientist; title: A backward glance and a reckoning.