John Hughlings Jackson, 1835-1911

Catalogue Raisonné of the Writings of John Hughlings Jackson

Hughlings Jackson & Ophthalmoscope

This is in a sense true, and the writing of this article would have been easier had I had the privilege of knowing the great man. There are, however, three types of great men, in medicine. The first achieves his greatness during his life by his clinical work and by his kindness and skill in curing and alleviating the sufferings of large numbers of patients. The second, in addition to his clinic...

Hughlings Jackson on joking.

‘Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He doesn’t seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed. The other hunter whips out his phone and calls the emergency services. He gasps, “My friend is dead! What can I do?” The operator says “Calm down. I can help. First, let’s make sure he’s dead.” There is a silence, then a gun shot is heard. Back on the phone, the guy says “OK, n...

Hughlings Jackson on psychiatry

involving the rise of the health centre and the health care team. In terms of precursors, these ideas went back at least to 1920; in terms of operational application, the modernization of general practice cannot really be said to have begun before 1966. It may even be argued that the characterization of modern general practice-"a network of surveillance that discovered, identified and monitored...

Unpublished Writings of John Hughlings Jackson, Rockefeller Medical Library, Institute of Neurology, University College London

The archives of the Rockefeller Medical Library hold a number of unpublished manuscripts of John Hughlings Jackson, the only ones of his known to exist. These manuscripts are mainly typescripts prepared between 1898 and 1910 in collaboration with James Taylor, but two are handwritten. They are in various stages of completion; most contain marginal comments and corrections in Hughlings Jackson’s...