A reference handbook of the medical sciences, embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science . phe-nomenon, nor is it influenced by light. It is physical,not vital, in nature, and may be due, as has beensuggested, to the fact that the solid particles are inunstable equilibrium and so are influenced by andrender visible the molecular movements of the fluidin which they are suspended. T. L. S. Brown=Sequard, Charles Edward.—Born in PortLouis, on the island of Mauritius, Indian Ocean,April 8, 1817. His father,Edward Brown, came fromPhiladelphia, Pa., while hism
A reference handbook of the medical sciences, embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science . phe-nomenon, nor is it influenced by light. It is physical,not vital, in nature, and may be due, as has beensuggested, to the fact that the solid particles are inunstable equilibrium and so are influenced by andrender visible the molecular movements of the fluidin which they are suspended. T. L. S. Brown=Sequard, Charles Edward.—Born in PortLouis, on the island of Mauritius, Indian Ocean,April 8, 1817. His father,Edward Brown, came fromPhiladelphia, Pa., while hismother, S^quard by name,was a native of France. In1S3S he visited Paris for thepurpose of completing hismedical studies, and re-ceived from the universityof that city, in 1840, thedegree of Doctor of Medi-cine. From that time on-ward he devoted liimself toexperimental investigationsin regard to the compositionof the blood, animal heat,the spinal cord and its dis-eases, and the muscular,nervous, and ganghonic sys-tems; and, as a result of this experimental work, hefelt warranted in undertaking the treatment of diseases ^ps,^. Fig. 1163.—Charles EdwardBrown-Sequard. of the nervous .system. From time to time during thefollowing score or more of years he made a practice ofvisiting London and some of the larger cities in theUnited States for periods varying from a few weeks ormonths to several years. On such occasions he de-livered a certain number of lectures on topics related toliis specialty and carried on a good deal of consulta-tion practice. In 1860 he w-as appointed physician tothe Hospital for the Paralyzed and Epileptic. In 1864he was appointed professor of pathology at HarvardLniversity. In 1869 he resigned his professorshipand returned to Paris. In 1873 he again came to theUnited States and practised medicine for a few yearsin New York. In 1878 he was elected to the Chair ofI^xperimental Medicine in the College de France, asthe successor to Claude Bernard. He die
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