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 BROWN-SEQUARD

BROWN-SEQUARD

nothing to him except as a means to develop science and assist young scien- tists. The laboratory had more interest than the consulting- room, and it was only when in need of funds to carry on experi- ments that he attended patients. He was forever rushing hither and thither, to the United States, to France, to England, back to the Mauritius, writing, lecturing, experimenting, making warm friends everywhere, notably Agassiz, Sumner, Longfellow in the States, often fighting for his theories against unbelief and opposition, at other times lifted high on the tide of popularity, as when for in- stance he helped to stamp out an epi- demic of cholera in Port Louis and his compatriots presented him with a gold medal in token of their gratitude. Owing to his strong opinions he went through many upheavals that accounted for his restless and unsettled life.

His writings, of which there is no full list, are chiefly in the "Journal de la Physiologie Normale de l'Homme et des Animaux;" " Bulletin de la Society de Biologie;" "Archives de Physiologie Normal et Pathologique;" "Archives of Scientific and Practical Medicine and Surgery;" "The Philadelphia Medical Examiner," 1853, and in London and New York medical journals. In 1S5S he established at his own cost the "Journal de Physiologie" and in 1861, elected fellow of the Royal Society, delivered the Croonian lecture on the "Relation between Muscular Irritability, Cadaveric Rigidity and Putrefaction." The "Arch- ives of Scientific and Practical Medicine," in which he published his first article on Inhibition," was founded by him in 1S74.

In 1856 appeared articles on the functions of suprarenal capsules. A series of papers which came out in the "Boston Medical Journal," 1857, were publish- ed in a book entitled "Researches in Epilepsy, its Artificial Production in Animals, its Etiology, its Nature, and its Treatment in Man."

A course of "Lectures on the Physi- ology and Pathology of the Centra] Nervous System," given at the Royal

College of Surgeons of England, May, 185S, were published in Philadelphia,

1860, after appearing in "The Lancet" in London.

Lectures on the "Diagnosis and Treatment of the Principal Forms of Paralysis of the Lower Extremities," also lectures on the "Diagnosis and Treat- ment of the Various Forms of Paralytic, Convulsive and Mental Affections con- sidered as Effects of Morbid Alternations of the Blood or of the Brain or of Other Organs," being a combination of the ' Gulstonian Lectures" delivered at the Royal College of Physicians, London,

1861, and clinical lectures delivered at the National Hospital for the Paralyzed and Epileptic. In 1SG8 there appeared in Philadelphia "Lectures on the Diag- nosis and Treatment of Functional Ner- vous Affections."

During 1875-76 he delivered lectures in Dublin and other places on "Anes- thesia, Amaurosis and Aphasia caused by Lesions of the Brain," and at the Royal College of Physicians, London, on the "Pathological Physiology of the Brain."

In 1878 he began his course at the College de France. From then to the time of his death the "Archives de Physiologie," the reports of the "Aca- demie des Sciences," and of the "Socieie' de Biologie" contained the results of his researches "On the Physiology of the Blood-corpuscles," "on Cadaveric Rigid- ity" and "Muscular Contractions," "On the Influence of Carbonic Acid " and "On the Noxious Effects of Expired Air, Effects Distinct from Those of Carbonic Acid."

In 1889 Brown-Sequard began his experiments "on the internal secretion of glands," and descriptions of his new therapeutic method of subcutaneous injections of organic liquids appeared in the above-mentioned journals and reports.

Among many other papers one may cite the article "Epilepsy" in Quain's "Dictionary of Medicine," and an article in the "Forum," New York, 1892, mi "Have we Two Brains or One?"