Marshall Hall (Medic)

Marshall Hall

Marshall Hall (born February 18, 1790 in Basford , today the city of Nottingham ( Nottinghamshire ), † August 11, 1857 in Brighton ( East Sussex )) was an English general practitioner who researched in the field of physiologist .

Live and act

Hall studied at Edinburgh from 1809, practiced as a doctor in Bridgewater, from 1817 to Nottingham and from 1826 in London. Since 1819 he was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . In December 1855 he became a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences in Paris.

Hall first emphasized the importance of electrical examination for diagnosis and prognosis of paralysis; His physiological investigations into the reflex movements, for whose sole central organ he proved the spinal cord (with medulla oblongata ), were also of fundamental importance.

He described Hall syndrome, named after him .

Works

On diagnosis (London. 1817, 2 vol .; 2nd ed. 1822; German von Bloch, 1823);
On some of the more important female diseases (1827, 3rd ed. 1837);
Essay on the circulation of the blood (1832);
On the true spinal marrow and the electromotor system of nerves (1837);
On the reflex-functions of the medulla oblongata and medulla spinalis (1833; German by Ernst Dieffenbach , 1840);
Lectures on the nervous systems and its diseases (1836; German, 1836);
Memoirs on the nervous system (1837; German von Kürschner, 1840);
Principles of the theory and practice of medicine (1837) et al
On the mutual relations between anatomy physiology ... and the practice of medicine (German von Lewin: Grundzüge der Theorie und Praxis der Internal Diseases. Leipzig: Kollmann, 1843)
From diseases of the nervous system / Marshall Hall. From the English with some critical remarks by J. Wallach. Leipzig: Otto Wigand, 1842

biography

Memoirs of Marshall Hall (1861) edited by his widow .

literature

Manuel, Diana E, Marshall Hall (1770–1857): Vivisection and the development of experimental physiology , in: Nickolaas A. Rupke, Vivisection in Historical Perspective , London: Croom Helm, 1972.
Reinhard Hildebrand: Rudolf Albert Koelliker and his scientific contacts abroad. In: Würzburger medical historical reports 2, 1984, pp. 101–115; here: p. 104 f.

Individual evidence

^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed December 14, 2019 .
^ List of members since 1666: Letter H. Académie des sciences, accessed on November 22, 2019 (French).

personal data
SURNAME	Hall, Marshall
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 18, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nottingham
DATE OF DEATH	August 11, 1857
Place of death	Brighton

[1] Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed December 14, 2019 .

[2] List of members since 1666: Letter H. Académie des sciences, accessed on November 22, 2019 (French).