Henry Charlton Bastian

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Henry Charlton Bastian

Henry Charlton Bastian (born April 26, 1837 in Truro , † November 17, 1915 in Chesham Bois , Buckinghamshire ) was a British neurologist .

Life

Apart from his great interest in natural history , little is known of Bastian's early years. In 1856 he came to University College London and graduated from the University of London in 1861. First he began his work at St. Mary's Hospital in London as an assistant doctor and lecturer in pathology . He received his doctorate in 1866 and in 1867, at the age of 30, returned to the University of London as Professor of Pathological Anatomy . At that time, teaching neurology at University College London was heavily influenced by Sir John Russell Reynolds . Even William Gowers , the eight years had worked long under Bastian, was at University College, just after he approved had and in 1867 his "Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS)" received.

Bastian continued his work in clinical medicine and in 1878 became physicist at University College Hospital. From 1887 to 1898 he was professor of medical principles and applications and, overlapping from 1868 to 1902, also commissioned by the National Hospital in Queen Square in London. He turned away from clinical neurology early on and returned to the problem of spontaneous generation , which he had already dealt with at the beginning of his career. In his earliest scientific work, Bastian dealt with the guinea worm and other roundworms , but had to stop his research spontaneously due to an allergy to these creatures.

In 1866 he married Julia Orme, with whom he had three sons and a daughter.

In 1868, at the age of 31, he was made a member of the Royal Society . He set standards at the Royal College of Physicians in London from 1897 to 1898 and received honorary membership at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and an honorary doctorate from the Royal University of Ireland . From 1884 to 1898 he was the royal adviser on suspected mental illness .

Fonts

  • The Modes of Origin of Lowest Organisms. London 1871.
  • The beginnings of life. 2 volumes. London 1872.
  • On Paralysis From Brain Disease in Its Common Forms. London 1875.
  • The Brain as an Organ of Mind. London, 1880. Appleton, New York 1880.
  • Paralyses, Cerebral, Bulbar and Spinal. London 1886.
  • The "muscular sense"; its nature and cortical localization. Brain, London 1888, 1-137.
  • Various Forms of Hysterical and Functional Paralysis. London 1893.
  • A Treatise on Aphasia and Other Speech Defects. Lewis, London 1898.
  • Studies in Heterogenesis. 4 parts. London 1901-1903. Together 1904.
  • The Nature and Origin of Living Matter. London 1905.
  • The Evolution of Life. Methuen, London 1907.
  • The Origin of Life. London, 1911, 1913.
  • On the symptomatology of total transverse lesions of the spinal cord; with special reference to the conditions of the various reflexes. Medico-Surgical Transactions, London 1890, 151-217.

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Bastian, Henry Charlton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English neurologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Truro (Cornwall)
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 1915
Place of death Chesham Bois , Buckinghamshire, England