Jacob Lockhart Clarke

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Jacob Augustus Lockhart Clarke (* 1817 in London ; † January 25, 1880 ibid) was an English anatomist , physiologist , histopathologist and neurologist .

Jacob Lockhart Clarke first studied in France and then received his medical training at Guy's Hospital and St. Thomas' Hospital in London . He set up a private practice in Pimlico, London, and continued his physiological-histological studies of the central nervous system between 1851 and 1868 at St. George's Hospital . In 1854 he was elected a member of the Royal Society , which in 1864 awarded him a gold medal.

The Clarkean column ( nucleus thoracicus posterior ) in the posterior horn of the spinal cord is named after him.

Publications

  • Further researches on the gray substance of the spinal cord ; London 1859.
  • On a case of muscular atrophy, with disease of the spinal cord and medulla oblongata. In: Med.-chir. Transaction. Volume 50, 1867, pp. 489-496.

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