THE LATE DR. MARSHALL HALL.

Marshall Hall, the reflex arc and epilepsy.

Marshall Hall (1790-1857), who graduated from the University of Edinburgh's Medical School in 1812, was considered one of the greatest physiologists of his day. He advanced knowledge in various areas of medicine, in particular elucidating the mechanism of reflex activity in 1833. Hall suggested that convulsive epileptic seizures arose from heightened activity in the afferent limb or the central...

Marshall Hall and the concepts of reflex action.

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The Late Dr. Reginald Farrar

The Late Dr. Francis Warner

The recent death of Dr. Warner in his eightieth year, is an event which must command the sympathy and regret of the readers of Mental Welfare. For many years past he had been retired from active work, but in the l'atter part of last century his name was one of the best known among those working in the field to which this journal is devoted. He was, indeed, a leader in the way in which he approa...

Late Dr. Busteed, I.M.S.

sensible of the great debt due to Dr. Busteed for the sagacious and indefatigable researches which he conducted into the history of " Old Calcutta," for the light which he threw upon the life and conversation of our countrymen in that city, and for the graphic pictures drawn by his careful pen of one of the most momentous periods in the growth of our Indian Empire, the days of Warren Hastings a...