David Ferrier

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Sir David Ferrier

Sir David Ferrier (born January 13, 1843 in Woodside near Aberdeen , Scotland, † March 19, 1928 in London ) was a British physiologist and neuroscientist.

Life

Ferrier, born in 1843, studied medicine and became an assistant to the philosopher and psychologist Alexander Bain (1818–1903) in Aberdeen. On Bain's advice, Ferrier worked for some time in Germany with Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894) and Wilhelm Wundt (1832–1920) in Heidelberg , both of whom were trained physicists in sensory physiology.

After returning to Scotland, Ferrier received a PhD in Medicine from the University of Edinburgh . In 1870 he moved to London , where he worked at King's College Hospital (professor there from 1871) and the National Hospital for Paralysis and Epilepsy, the first clinic in England to specialize in neurological diseases . The neurologist John Hughlings Jackson (1835–1911), who also worked there, gave him the impetus for an overarching theoretical concept.

Among other things, at the invitation of the neurologist and psychiatrist Sir James Crichton-Browne (1840–1938), at the “West Riding Lunatic Asylum” he was aware of and continued the experiments of the German anatomist, anthropologist and physiologist Gustav Fritsch (1838–1927) and the German Internists, neurologists and psychiatrists as well as experimental epileptologist Eduard Hitzig (1838–1907) - although without citing them in his publications - carried out more extensive and more precise cortical stimulation and ablation experiments on animals.

Ferrier died in 1928 in York House, Kensington (London) of lung disease.

Honors

In 1876 Ferrier was elected as a Fellow in the Royal Society , which in 1890 awarded him the Royal Medal . In 1890 Ferrier was elected a member of the Leopoldina and in 1900 a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . In 1911 he was knighted as a Knight Bachelor .

Works

  • Historical Notes on Poisoning (London, 1872)
  • The Localization of Cerebral Disease (Goulstonian Lectures, 1878) (London, 1878)
  • The Functions of the Brain (London, 1876; 2nd ed. 1886). German: The function of the brain . Translated by H. Obersteiner. Brunswick 1879
  • Principles of Forensic Medicine , (London, 6th ed. 1888)
  • William Augustus, David Ferrier: Cerebral Localization (London, 1890)
  • The Heart and Nervous System (Harveian Oration, 1902) (London, 1902)
  • On Tabes Dorsalis (Lumleian Lectures, 1906) (London, 1906)

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Gustav T. Fritsch, Eduard Hitzig: About the electrical excitability of the cerebrum. In: Arch. Anat. Physiol. Med. Wiss. 1870, pp. 300-322.
  2. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed December 4, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Ferrier, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British neuroscientist
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Woodside near Aberdeen , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1928
Place of death London