John Russell Reynolds
Sir John Russell Reynolds, 1st Baronet (born May 22, 1828 in Romsey , Hampshire , † May 29, 1896 ) was a British neurologist .
His grandfather Henry Revell Reynolds was a doctor to King George III. His father, John Renolds, was a freelance preacher.
He was homeschooled by his father and studied at University College London. In 1851 he graduated there with a gold medal in Physiology, Comparative Anatomy and Medicine. He first practiced in Leeds , but one of his teachers Marshall Hall convinced him to return to London. Reynolds also initially lived with Hall on Grosvenor Street. In 1855 he became an assistant doctor at the Children's Hospital, in 1857 at Westminster Hospital and later at University College Hospital. He became Holme Professor of Clinical Medicine in 1862 and succeeded Jenner as Professor of Medicine in 1867. He became dean as early as 1868. In 1864 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
He was one of the first to study the behavior of epilepsy patients in depth . He questioned the prevailing thesis that serious mental illness and epilepsy almost always go hand in hand. He studied the cognitive and affective functions in 62 patients with ( idiopathic ) epilepsy and found that 39% of the patients were absolutely "normal", 32% had slight impairments in short-term memory and 29% had more severe psychopathological findings.
He was Queen Victoria's personal physician for 13 years . In recognition of his achievements, he was given the hereditary title of Baronet , of Grosvenor Street, in the Parish of Saint George, Hanover-Square, in the County of London, on February 28, 1895 .
Works
In addition to numerous publications, he wrote the five-volume work A system of medicine from 1868 to 1879 .
family
He was married twice but had no children. In 1881 he married Frances Plunkett (1835-1908), daughter of William Plunkett and widow of Charles John Champion-Crespigny (1814-1880).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The London Gazette : 26602, 1148 , February 26, 1895.
- ^ The Lancet, Volume 2, Part 2, 1908, p. 1539
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| SURNAME | Reynolds, John Russell |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Reynolds, J. Russell; Reynolds, Sir John Russell, 1st Baronet |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British neurologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1828 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Romsey , Hampshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 29, 1896 |