Encounters with Winston Churchill.
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W Russell Brain (1895-1966) was two weeks short of his fifty-fourth birthday when he first saw Winston Churchill in consultation at the request of Lord Moran' on 5 October 1949. Russell Brain was a consultant physician at the (then) London Hospital and the Maida Vale Hospital For Nervous Diseases. He earned his living primarily from his private practice in Harley Street as a consultant neurologist, and, latterly and more significantly, as the author of Diseases of the nervous system, Clinical neurology, and other medical and non-medical books. In the 1950s and 1960s neurological diagnosis was based on the interpretation of the clinical history and of the clinical signs: altered mentation, perception, speech, movement and sensation. This included testing the visual fields, examining the optic fundi and the response of the pupils, testing for muscular weakness, the diminution
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Medical History
دوره 44 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2000