Πέμπτη 1 Ιουνίου 2017

Sir Henry Head FRS (1861-1940): a life in science and society

Henry Head was the outstanding clinical neuroscientist of his generation and prominent in the arts and literary society of Edwardian London

When the Medical Committee met on 4 February 1896 to consider the appointment of a new member of the consultant staff at Queen Square, Henry Head was placed third of five candidates. Sir William Gowers (1845–1915) explained that "everyone recognises his great ability... [but] whenever I spoke to Head (or rather he spoke to me) I always felt that I knew nothing... and was only too glad to escape". Thus, having worked at the National Hospital intermittently since 1881, a patronising attitude to senior colleagues left Head, the outstanding original thinker in neurology of his generation, outside the self-styled ‘temple of neurology’. In ‘Henry Head, herpes zoster, and the graphic development of his scheme of the dermatomes in man’1 , Dr GD Schott, formerly consultant neurologist at Queen Square,...



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