Henry Noel Brailsford: neglected cosmopolitan

Henry Charlton Bastian ( 1837 – 1915 ) : Neglected Neurologist and Scientist

Henry Charlton Bastian was born in Truro, Cornwall. He graduated in 1861 at the University College, London, where he worked most of his life. He was one of the first neurologists appointed to the National Hospital, Queen Square. There, he conducted original investigations and pursued wide interests both in medical and biological sciences. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1868. In...

Henry Charlton Bastian (1837-1915): neglected neurologist and scientist.

Henry Charlton Bastian was born in Truro, Cornwall. He graduated in 1861 at the University College, London, where he worked most of his life. He was one of the first neurologists appointed to the National Hospital, Queen Square. There, he conducted original investigations and pursued wide interests both in medical and biological sciences. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1868. In...

2 Ureteral Trauma Noel

Osteo-chondrodystrophia deformans (Morquio Brailsford disease).

In 1929 Morquio described an osseous dystrophy in a family, in which four out of five siblings were affected. In 1931 Brailsford described the radiological features of the disease. Since then about 40 additional cases have been reported in subjects all of European descent. Of the four cases presented in this paper, two are pure Africans and two are of mixed European-African racial origin. Littl...

Henry Ormerod

at the age of 68, belonged to a family of surgeons. He was educated at the Bristol Royal Infirmary and Medical School, and very soon after qualifying he settled at Westbury. Although his capacity for work was immense, yet in the early years of his practice he had more than one attack of haemoptysis, and it was his opinion that leading a country open-air life had been the means of warding off mo...