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Portraits of European Neuroscientists
Nicholas Wade, Marco Piccolino & Adrian Simmons
Introduction
Portrait Gallery
Portrait Subjects
Medicine
Gilbert's magnet
William Gilbert
Medical observer
Thomas Sydenham
Edinburgh physician
Robert Sibbald
Iatro-mathematician
Archibald Pitcairne
Quaker physician
John Fothergill
Brunonian
John Brown
Founder member and historian
John Coakley Lettsom
Rush’s tranquilising chair
Benjamin Rush
Distinguished oblivion
William Charles Wells
Antiseptic surgeon
Joseph Lister
Brain surgeon
William Macewen
Period
1400s
1500s
1600s
early 1700s
late 1700s
early 1800s
late 1800s
1900s
Area
Anatomy
Brain Dysfunctions
Brain Functions
Chemistry
Medicine
Microanatomy
Philosophy
Physics
Physiology
Senses
