John Hughlings Jackson: Father of English Neurology

by MacDonald Critchley and Eileen Critchley

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195123395
• ISBN13: 9780195123395
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"