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1 Jackson, John Hughlings
SUBJECT AREA: Medical technology[br]b. 4 April 1835 Providence Green, Yorkshire, Englandd. 7 October 1911 London, England[br]English neurologist and neurophysiologist, discoverer of Jacksonian epilepsy and the neurological basis of speech defects; pioneer of the technique of the localization of the site of cerebral disease.[br]Jackson studied medicine at York and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, qualifying in 1856. For a while he practised in York and was dissuaded from abandoning medicine for philosophy by Jonathan Hutchinson. Upon his return to London, he was appointed Assistant Physician and later, in 1874, Physician to the London Hospital. He was also on the staff of Moorfields Eye Hospital and in 1874 was appointed to the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic in Queen's Square. It was particularly in connection with his association with cases at the latter that he was able to establish the association of designated areas of the brain with specific limbs and functions. He acknowledged that in the field of speech the work of Broca had shown the way.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsFRS 1878. Gulstonian Lecturer and Croonian Lecturer, College of Physicians.Bibliography1869, Certain Points on the Study and Classification of Diseases of the Nervous System.1884, Evolution and Dissolution of the Nervous System.1931–32, Selected Writings (ed. J.Taylor et al.).MGBiographical history of technology > Jackson, John Hughlings
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Jackson , John Hughlings — (1835–1911) British neurologist Jackson was born at Green Hammerton in England and educated at York Hospital and St. Bartholomew s Hospital, London. He received his MD from St. Andrews University in 1860. He served on the staff of the London… … Scientists
Jackson, John Hughlings — born April 4, 1835, Green Hammerton, Yorkshire, Eng. died Oct. 7, 1911, London British neurologist. He showed that most right handed persons with aphasia had disease on the left side of the brain, confirming Paul Broca s findings. In 1863 he… … Universalium
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John Hughlings Jackson — (* 4. April 1835 in Green Hammerton, Yorkshire (jetzt North Yorkshire); † 7. Oktober 1911 in London) war ein englischer Neurologe. Von besonderer Bedeutung waren seine Forschungen auf den Gebieten der Epilepsie und der Aphasie … Deutsch Wikipedia
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