John Hughlings Jackson : father of English neurology /

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Author / Creator:Critchley, Macdonald.
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 228 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11163682
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Other authors / contributors:Critchley, Eileen A.
ISBN:1423738284
9781423738282
1602563098
9781602563094
9780195123395
0195123395
1280471468
9781280471469
0195123395
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-213) and index.
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Summary:This book traces the life and scientific career of Dr. John Hughlings Jackson (1835-1911), the English physician who pioneered the development of neurology as a medical specialty during the reign of Queen Victoria. Jackson made a number of scientific discoveries in several areas of higher nervous activity and language, and contributed greatly to the study of various types of epilepsy. He isolated the form of epilepsy associated with localized convulsive seizures, known as Jacksonian epilepsy. His research on epilepsy stretched across a broad spectrum and included uncinate attacks, intellectual.
Other form:Print version: Critchley, Macdonald. John Hughlings Jackson. New York : Oxford University Press, 1998