Abstract
The last two years of Brown-Séquard’s life were not full of bliss, despite marital happiness, his daughter’s affection and his secured financial and social situation, with a luxurious apartment in Paris, a villa in Nice and a galaxy of friends and admirers. In January 1894, he is shattered by grief at the death of his wife and returned to Paris a broken and sick man, suffering a brain haemorrhage. He died on the 1st April of that year.
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Celestin, LC. (2014). The Last Years: 1892–1894. In: Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03020-3_19
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