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8 october 1940 reading , berkshire siegfried sassoon stoke newington , middlesex english physiology neurology psychiatry university college hospital national hospital , queen square 4 august 1861 self-administered experiments on cutaneous sensibility london and dorset royal of the royal society of medicine , 1929 honorary fellowship medal at trinity college , cambridge , 1930 , fellow of , the royal society 1908 knighthood , 1927 gold medal henry head 3.jpg henry head
 sir henry head trinity college , university of cambridge
henry head

sir henry head , frs -lrb- 4 august 1861 -- 8 october 1940 -rrb- was an english neurologist who conducted pioneering work into the somatosensory system and sensory nerves .
much of this work was conducted on himself , in collaboration with the psychiatrist w. h. r. rivers , by severing and reconnecting sensory nerves and mapping how sensation returned over time .
head-holmes syndrome and head-riddoch syndrome are named after him .
