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His father was an American sailor and his mother a local Creole. He studied Medicine in Paris, and graduated in 2,6. He came to be recognized worldwide as a brilliant neuroscientist, whose area of expertise was the nervous system physiology, and he was eventually rewarded for his endeavors by his nomination to be the Professor of Experimental Medicine in in Paris, replacing Claude Bernard.
This may in part explain his erratic career path in which he oscillated between laboratory research and private practice, in Paris, London, Boston, and Richmond, in Virginia 2,6,7. This international fame led to reach patients who traveled from all over Europe to visit him in his consulting suite. Brazilian Monarchy began with the arrival of the Portuguese Royal Family in Brazil, after they had fled Portugal, with the aid of the British Royal Navy, in order to avoid the advancing troops of Napoleon Bonaparte.
In , at the age of 23, he became Emperor of Brazil Fig 1.
Brown-Séquard: An Improbable Genius Who Transformed Medicine traces the strange career of an eccentric, restless, widely admired, nineteenth-century. Among the many famous physiologists of the nineteenth century, very few seem as enigmatic as Charles Edouard Brown-Séquard. Like many.
His reign continued uninterrupted until , when the royal family was banished following the proclamation of the Brazilian Republic. Dom Pedro II married Princess Teresa Cristina de Bourbon, with whom he had two daughters, the most famous being Princess Isabel, and two sons, both of whom died at two years of age 8,9.
A consummate reader and polyglot, he devoted himself to the arts and fostering of science.
He had little interest in politics, which may have contributed to some of the offensive nicknames he was forced to bear " Pedro Banana " - "Banana Peter"; " Pedro da Mala " - "Suitcase Peter" 8,9. Dom Pedro experienced profound fatigue, asthenia and malaise, and sought the opinion of a number of European doctors, however he was always traveling in the company of his private physician, doctor Motta Maia.
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He consulted Charcot, in Paris in , who diagnosed him as suffering from sur menage psycho-physique neurasthenia , diabetes mellitus and probably a related peripheral neuropathy. His death certificate was signed by Professors Bouchard, Motta-Maia, and Charcot, on December 5 th , in , at the Bedford Hotel, in Paris, with the cause of death recorded as pneumonia The main topics covered in the correspondence are summarized in Table. Some were related to the health of the Emperor's wife, Princess Teresa Cristina, who suffered from recurring pain in her lower limbs, possibly neuropathic in origin, as well as spondylotic pain in the dorsal and lumbar segments.
When the princess was first introduced to the emperor, she had already a painful leg and walked with a limp that may have predisposed her later to have a degeneration of the thoracic and lumbar spine 5. He also enquires whether Brazilian physicians could come as visiting physicians to Paris. Quand vous fera-t-on justice? The authors thank Professor and Doctor Clotilde de L.
Germiniani for proofreading. We chose to keep the more traditional Brazilian spelling of her name. Charcot: constructing Neurology.
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Showing Rating details. Sort order. Aug 28, Dan rated it really liked it. Brown-Sequard's name is known to all medical students from the syndrome bearing his name caused by a lesion affecting one half of the spinal cord.
However this brilliant and complicated 19th century physician and physiologist published papers and books in his lifetime on subjects as diverse as epilepsy, rigor mortis, neuroanatomy, transplantation, and rejuvenation. His controversial and often ridiculed work with injections of testicular extracts in humans led to the beginning of the field of Brown-Sequard's name is known to all medical students from the syndrome bearing his name caused by a lesion affecting one half of the spinal cord. His controversial and often ridiculed work with injections of testicular extracts in humans led to the beginning of the field of endocrinology.
Michael Aminoff's excellent biography gives us a thorough view of this complex man's scientific and personal life in the context of 19th century science and medicine in Europe and the US. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. About Michael J.