Title Brown-Séquard : an improbable genius who transformed medicine / Michael J. Aminoff.

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Description	1 online resource (xiv, 356 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Prologue : the death of a professor -- At home in Mauritius -- A medical student in Paris -- Great expectations -- The physics of the circulation : why we don't faint on standing and get bedsores on lying still for too long -- Fame in the making -- Fame and fortune in Britain : a piece of cake -- Broken dreams and promises -- Musical chairs -- Thoughts about the brain -- The disease of devils and demons -- The magnificent maverick -- A new system of medicine -- Scenes from the world of a scientist -- A backward glance and a reckoning.
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Subject	Brown-Séquard, Charles-Edouard, 1817-1894.
	Brown-Séquard, Charles-Edouard, 1817-1894.
	Physicians -- France -- Biography.
	Physicians.
	France.
Genre/Form	Biographies.
Subject	Physiologists -- France -- Biography.
	Physiologists.
	Neurologists -- France -- Biography.
	Neurologists.
	Neurology.
	History, 19th Century.
	Neurology -- history.
	United Kingdom.
	Mauritania.
	Paris.
Genre/Form	Biography.
	Electronic books.
	Biographies.
Other Form:	Print version: Aminoff, Michael J. (Michael Jeffrey). Brown-Séquard. New York : Oxford University Press, 2011 9780199742639 (DLC) 2010013439 (OCoLC)592450994
ISBN	9780199780648 (electronic book)
	0199780641 (electronic book)
	9780199742639
	0199742634