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The New York Practitioner: 1872–1874

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In New York, March 1872, Brown-Séquard married Maria Rebecca Carlisle. He opened medical practices in Boston and New York. He launched the medical journal Archives of Scientific and Practical Medicine which contains his first paper on the inhibitory and dynamogenic properties of the nervous system in which he incorporated in his own conception of the localization of functions of the brain. He lectured on The Nerves at the Lowell Institute and delivered the Toner Lecture on the Dual Character of the Brain and advanced the concept of left cerebral dominance. Unhappy in his marriage he suffered from severe bouts of anxiety and depression made still worse when his wife died of septicaemia after giving birth to a daughter in May 1874.

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  1. 1.

    M.D.C. Editor of the Daily Chronicle (1894) Dr Brown-Séquard. Daily Chronicle, 6th April.

  2. 2.

    Berthelot MPE (1898) The Life and Work of Brown-Séquard. From the Smithsonian Report for 1898. Translated from the Revue Scientifique 1: 801–812, 1896. Government Printing Office, Washington, 1900, pp. 687–688.

  3. 3.

    Corlieu A (1896) Centenaire de la Faculté de médecine de Pairs, 1794–1894. Imprimerie Nationale, Paris, p. 378.

  4. 4.

    Charcot J-M (1873) Letter to Brown-Séquard. GMcCC, Ms 981/100, April.

  5. 5.

    Rouget FA (1930) Brown-Séquard et son oeuvre. Esquisse biographique. General Printing and Stationary Cy, Port Louis, Mauritius pp. 83–85.

  6. 6.

    Berthelot MPE (1898) Notice sur la vie et les travaux de M. Brown-Séquard. Typographie Firmin-Didot et Cie. Paris, pp. 24–25.

  7. 7.

    Brown-Séquard CE (1858) Letter to his wife, Maria. GMcCC, Ms 978/12, 12th Apr.

  8. 8.

    Brown-Séquard CE (1858) Letter to his wife, Maria. GMcCC, Ms 978/7, 7th Apr.

  9. 9.

    Brown-Séquard CE (1858) Letter to his wife, Maria. GMcCC, Ms 978/8, 8th Apr.

  10. 10.

    Prospectus of Archives of Scientific and Practical Medicine. GMcCC, Ms 999/7.

  11. 11.

    Brown-Séquard, op. cit., note 8, above.

  12. 12.

    Brown-Séquard CE (1873) Letter to Lippincott. GMcCC, Ms 989/7.

  13. 13.

    Archives of Scientific and Practical Medicine (NY) (1873) 1: 251–256.

  14. 14.

    Brown-Séquard CE (1853) Nouveau fait relatif à l’arrêt du coeur par la galvanisation du nerf vague. C R Soc Biol (Paris) 5: 153–154.

  15. 15.

    Sherrington CS (1893) Sur une action inhibitrice de l’écorce cérébrale. Rev Neurol (Paris) 2: 318–319.

  16. 16.

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  17. 17.

    Sherrington CS (1932) Nobel Prize Lecture, 12th Dec. Quoted by Eccles and Gibson, op. cit., note 16, above.

  18. 18.

    Berthelot, op. cit., note 2, above.

  19. 19.

    Agassiz EC (1887) Louis Agassiz: Sa Vie et sa correspondence. Traduit de l’anglais par Auguste Meyer. Librairie Fischbacher, Paris, p. 577.

  20. 20.

    Brown-Séquard CE (1858) Letter to his wife, Maria. GMcCC, Ms 978/6, 6th Apr.

  21. 21.

    Brown-Séquard, op. cit., note 9, above.

  22. 22.

    Berthelot, op. cit., note 6, above, p. 25.

  23. 23.

    Ibid.

  24. 24.

    Brown-Séquard CE (1873) Letter to his wife, Maria. GMcCC, Ms 978/11, 10th Apr.

  25. 25.

    Brown-Séquard , op. cit., note 7, above.

  26. 26.

    Brown-Séquard CE (1873) Letter to his wife, Maria. GMcCC, Ms 978/15, 15th Apr.

  27. 27.

    Brown-Séquard , op. cit., note 9, above.

  28. 28.

    Brown-Séquard CE (1873) Letter to his wife, Maria. GMcCC, Ms 978/17, 16th Apr.

  29. 29.

    Berthelot, op. cit., note 6, above, p. 26.

  30. 30.

    Brown-Séquard CE (1873) Letter to his wife, Maria. GMcCC, Ms 978/9, Apr.

  31. 31.

    Agassiz L (1873) Letter to Brown-Séquard . GMcCC, Ms 910/10, 24th Aug.

  32. 32.

    Berthelot, op. cit., note 6, above.

  33. 33.

    Ibid.

  34. 34.

    Ibid.

  35. 35.

    Ibid.

  36. 36.

    Dupuy E (1873) Letter to Brown-Séquard . GMcCC, Ms 981/94, 22nd Oct.

  37. 37.

    Marcou J (1896) Life, letters and works of Louis Agassiz, vol 2. Macmillan, New York, pp. 213–215.

  38. 38.

    Brown-Séquard CE (1874) Lectures on the nerves. Delivered at the Lowell Institute, Boston. February–March. Extracts from the New York Daily Tribune. Lecture and Letters extras. N°15, pp. 12–35, 9th April. GMcCC, Ms 999/43.

  39. 39.

    Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collection 15: 1–21, 1878.

  40. 40.

    British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting of Liverpool, 14th–21st September 1870. Lancet 2: 436–439, p. 346.

  41. 41.

    17: 330–333, 1874.

  42. 42.

    Brown-Séquard CE (1878) Doctrines relatives aux principales actions du centre nerveux. Leçon d’ouverture du cours de médecine au Collège de France fait le 2 décembre 1878. G. Mason, Paris.

  43. 43.

    9: 627–643, 1890.

  44. 44.

    Wigan AL (1985) A new view of insanity. The duality of the mind proved by the structure, functions and diseases of the brain and by the phenomena of mental derangement and shown to be essential to moral responsibility. Reprint by Joseph Simon, USA, 1985.

  45. 45.

    Brown-Séquard, op. cit., note 43, above, p. 627.

  46. 46.

    Brown-Séquard CE (1887) Dualité du cerveau et de la moelle épinière, d’après des faits montrant que l’anesthésie, l’hyperesthésie, la paralysie et des états variés d’hypothermie et d’hyperthermie, dus à des lésions organiques du centre cérébro-spinal, peuvent être transférés d’un côté à l’autre du corps. C R Acad Sci (Paris) 105: 642–652.

  47. 47.

    Brown-Séquard, op. cit., note 43, above, p. 636.

  48. 48.

    Ibid.

  49. 49.

    Brown-Séquard, op. cit., note 42, above, pp. 6–7.

  50. 50.

    Brown-Séquard, op. cit., note 43, above, p. 636.

  51. 51.

    Brown-Séquard, op. cit., note 39, above.

  52. 52.

    Ibid.

  53. 53.

    Brown-Séquard, op. cit., note 43, above, p. 636.

  54. 54.

    Brown-Séquard, op. cit., note 39, above, pp. 14 and 18.

  55. 55.

    Ibid.

  56. 56.

    Brown-Séquard CE (1871) Symptômes variables suivant le côté de l’encéphale qui est le siège des lésions. C R Soc Biol (Paris) 23: 96–98.

  57. 57.

    Brown-Séquard, op. cit., note 39, above, p. 10.

  58. 58.

    Gazzaniga MS, Bogen JE, Sperry RW (1965) Observations on visual perception after disconnection of the cerebral hemispheres in Man. Brain 88: 221–226.

  59. 59.

    Sperry RW, Gazzaniga MS (1967) Language following surgical disconnection of the hemispheres. In: Milikan CA, Darloey FL Mechanism underlying speech and language. Grune-Stratton, pp. 108–115.

  60. 60.

    Levy J, Treverthan C, Sperry RW (1970) Perception of bilateral chimeric figure following hemisphere disconnexion. Brain 95: 61–78.

  61. 61.

    Gazzaniga MS (1970) The Bissected Brain. Appleton, New York, p. 573.

  62. 62.

    Brown-Séquard , op. cit., note 39, above, p. 14.

  63. 63.

    Brown-Séquard CE (1865) On the importance of the application of physiology to the practice of medicine and surgery. Falconer, Dublin.

  64. 64.

    Brown-Séquard CE (1884) Persistence de la parole dans le chant, dans les rêves et dans le délire chez des aphasiques. C R Soc Biol (Paris) 1: 256–257.

  65. 65.

    Brown-Séquard, op. cit., note 28, above.

  66. 66.

    Berthelot, op. cit., note 6, above.

  67. 67.

    Berthelot, op. cit., note 2, above.

  68. 68.

    Marriage certificate of Brown-Séquard and Maria Rebecca Carlisle, 13th March 1872. GMcCC, MS 999/76.

  69. 69.

    Carlisle Mrs John. (1874) Letter to Brown-Séquard. GMcCC, Ms 980/42, 29th March.

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Celestin, LC. (2014). The New York Practitioner: 1872–1874. In: Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03020-3_15

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