‘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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