Brown-Séquard, EDOUARD

Brown-Séquard, EDOUARD, physiologist and physician, was born in Mauritius in 1818, his father being a sea-captain from Philadelphia, U.S., who married on the island a lady called Séquard. The son studied at Paris, and graduated M.D. in 1846. He devoted himself mainly to physiological research, and received numerous prizes, French and British, for the results of valuable experiments on blood, muscular irritability, animal heat, the spinal cord, and the nervous system. In 1864 he became professor of Physiology at Harvard, but in 1869 returned to Paris as professor of Pathology in the School of Medicine. In 1873 he became a medical practitioner in New York, treating specially dis- eases of the nervous system; and in 1878 he succeeded Claude Bernard as professor of Experimental Medicine at the Collège de France. He has repeatedly lectured in England also. He has published lectures on Physiology and Pathology of the Nervous System (Phila. 1860), on Paralysis of the Lower Extremities (1860), on Nervous Affections (1873), and on the dual character of the brain. He died 1st April 1894.