Sir David Ferrier was a Scottish neuropathologist. He was born in 1843 near Aberdeen and died in 1928. He studied at Aberdeen University, graduating with distinction in 1863, and in the same year he carried off the Ferguson inter-university scholarship in classics and philosophy. After studying for a short time at Heidelberg, he took the medical course at Edinburgh, and graduated MD in 1870, with very high distinction. In 1872 he became professor of forensic medicine in King's College, London, a chair which he exchanged in 1889 for that of neuro-pathology, specially founded for him, a position which he still helds in 1905. He became FRS in 1876, and in 1890 received a royal medal for his researches on the brain. These experiments included a large number of experiments on living animals, and he was, in consequence, attacked by the anti-vivisectionists. In 1908 he was appointed emeritus professor at King's College London. David Ferrier was knighted in 1911. In 1913 he was president of the Medical Society of London. He was awarded honorary degrees from the universities of Cambridge and Birmingham. His results were published in the works on The Functions of the Brain (1876), and Cerebral Localization (1878-1890). Research David Ferrier
Henry Charlton Bastian was an English physician and biologist. He was born in 1837 at Truro in 1837 and died in 1915. He was educated at Falmouth and at University College, London, where he was assistant-curator in the museum from 1860 until 1863. He obtained the degree of M.A. in 1861 from the University of London, graduating subsequently in medicine at the same university (M.B. 1863, M.D. 1866). In 1864 to 1866 he was a medical officer in the then Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum (now Broadmoor Secure Hospital), and in the latter year was appointed lecturer on pathology and assistant-physician in St Mary'sHospital. In 1867 he became professor of pathological anatomy in University College, subsequently he was also professor of clinical medicine, and he was appointed to the chair of medicine and clinical medicine. Apart from numerous contributions to medical and other periodicals, and to Quain's Dictionary of Medicine, he wrote The Modes of Origin of Lowest Organisms (published in 1871); The Beginnings of Life (published in 1872); Evolution and the Origin of Life (published in 1874); Lectures on Paralysis from Brain Disease (published in 1875); and The Brain as an Organ of Mind (published in 1880), which was translated into French and German. He was also an advocate for spontaneous generation. Research Henry Bastian
Robert Remak was a German physician. He was born in 1815 at Posen and died in 1865. He conducted microscopical research into embryology and pathology and made discoveries in the use of electricity in medicine. Research Robert Remak
Rudolf Virchow was a German pathologist and politician. He was born in 1821 and died in 1902. He was professor of pathological anatomy at Berlin in 1856 and proved the cellular theory applicable in pathology as well as in physiology. Research Rudolf Virchow
Tito Carbone was professor of pathology and anatomy at the University of Modena. He was born in 1863 and died in 1904. He achieved note for isolating and identifying the microbe of Mediterranean fever - Melitensis. In doing so he managed to infect himself and died of the fever. Research Tito Carbone
Pathology is the branch of medicine concerned with the cause, origin, and nature of disease, including the changes occurring as a result of disease. Research Pathology
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