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    Louis-Cyril Celestin.
    Summary: Genius and dilettantism often go hand in hand. Nowhere is this truer than in the life of Charles-Edouard Brown-Sequard, the bilingual physician and neurologist who succeeded Claude Bernard as the Chair of Experimental Medicine at the College de France in Paris after having practiced in Paris, London and in the USA, especially in Harvard. For most men, making one discovery of global importance would have sufficed to satisfy their curiosity and self-image. Not so Brown-Sequard. His explanation of the neurological disparity following the hemi-section of the spinal cord was a unique achievement that added his name to the syndrome and made him immortal. Yet, the demons of his mind tormented him in his endless search for medical truths and drove him to explore other phenomena, seeking to explain and remedy them. This unique biography shows for the first time the conflict between his professional and personal life, and should appeal to all students of medical history and psychology.

    Contents:
    Physiology in the Nineteenth Century
    The Birthplace
    The Forebears
    The Formative Years: 1817-1837
    The Medical Student: 1838-1846
    The Lone Experimenter: 1846-1851
    The Visitor to America: 1852-1853
    The Cholera Physician: 1854
    The Richmond Professor: 1854-1855
    The Paris Practitioner: 1856-1857
    The Itinerant Lecturer: 1856-1859
    The London Consultant Neurologist: 1860-1864
    The Harvard Professor: 1864-1867
    The Paris Course Lecturer: 1869-1872
    The New York Practitioner: 1872-1874
    The Indigent Physician: 1874-1877
    The College de France Professor: 1878-1894
    The Father of Hormonal Therapy: 1889-1893
    The Last Years: 1892-1894.
    Digital Access Springer 2014