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29 may 1896 22 may 1828 london romsey , hampshire british 22 may 1828 john russell reynolds.jpg john russell reynolds
 sir john russell reynolds , 1st baronet neurologist
john russell reynolds

sir john russell reynolds , 1st baronet -lrb- 22 may 1828 -- 29 may 1896 -rrb- was a british neurologist and physician .
reynolds was born in romsey , hampshire , as son of john reynolds , an independent minister , and grandson of dr. henry revell reynolds .
he received general education from his father , and was educated in his profession at university college , london , where he obtained three gold medals in the medical school .
in 1851 he graduated m.b. in the university of london , and obtained a scholarship and gold medal in medicine .
in 1852 he took the degree of m.d. , and began practice in leeds .
he soon after moved to london , and took a house , 38 grosvenor street , in which dr. marshall hall had lived .
hall announced to his patients in a printed circular that reynolds had succeeded him in practice .
such procedure was contrary to a recognised understanding among physicians , and hall incurred the censure of the college of physicians .
reynolds , who was ignorant of hall 's intention , was in no way responsible for the circular , and was in no way involved in the censure .
he was duly elected a fellow of the college in 1859 .
in the same year he was appointed assistant physician to university college hospital , to which he continued attached throughout life .
he had before been , in 1855 , assistant physician to the hospital for sick children , and in 1857 assistant physician to the westminster hospital .
in 1865 he became professor of the principles and practice of medicine at university college , and in 1878 he was appointed physician-in-ordinary to the queen 's household .
he gained a considerable practice as a physician , and was often consulted in difficult cases of nervous disease .
in 1869 he was elected a fellow of the royal society , and in 1883 vice-president of the royal medical and chirurgical society .
he delivered the lumleian lecture at the college of physicians in 1867 , the harveian oration in 1884 , and was elected president in 1893 , on the death of sir andrew clark .
he was re-elected in 1894 and 1895 , and on 1 january in the latter year was created a baronet .
in the winter of 1895 -- 6 he became too ill to offer himself for re-election as president of the college of physicians .
he died at his house in grosvenor street , london , after several weeks of illness of a pulmonary congestion , on 29 may 1896 .
he was married , first , to miss ainslie , and , secondly , to frances , widow of c. j. c. crespigny , but left no children .
the `` reynolds baronetcy '' , of grosvenor street , was created in the baronetage of the united kingdom on 28 february 1895 for john russell reynolds .
the title became extinct on his death .
reynolds devoted himself from an early period to the study of nervous diseases , and in 1854 published an `` essay on vertigo '' ; in 1855 `` diagnosis of diseases of the brain , spinal cord , and nerves '' , as well as `` tables for the diagnosis of diseases of the brain '' ; in 1861 a treatise on epilepsy ; in 1871 `` lectures on the clinical uses of electricity '' ; in 1872 `` the scientific value of the legal tests of insanity '' ; besides many papers in medical periodicals and the transactions of medical societies , and several addresses to medical associations .
his writings on nervous diseases were useful contributions to a department of medicine in which much work remained undone , but in the flood of modern observations they have been submerged .
he will chiefly be remembered among physicians as the editor of the `` system of medicine '' , in five volumes , published from 1866 to 1879 , a collection of essays on diseases , written by the most competent men who could be induced to write -- compositions of varying merit , but generally of high value .
he himself wrote the parts on erysipelas , on inflammation of the lymphatics , and on several forms of nervous disease .
he published in 1893 a `` life of dr. walter hayle walshe '' .
reynolds was a tall man , with dark hair , with a dignified delivery and some oratorical power .
reynolds died in london .
