Marshall Hall (physiologist)

Marshall Hall ( born February 18, 1790 in Basford, Nottingham City today ( Nottinghamshire ); † August 11, 1857 in Brighton (East Sussex ) ) was an English physiologist.

Hall studied since 1809 to Edinburgh, practiced medicine in Bridgewater, from 1817 to Nottingham and since 1826 in London.

Hall first emphasized the importance of the electrical examination for diagnosis and prognosis of paralysis; as well as his studies of the reflex movements, for whose only central organ he considered the spinal cord, is of fundamental importance had been.

He described the syndrome named after him Hall.

Works

  • On diagnosis ( London. 1817, 2 vols, 2nd Edition 1822 German Bloch, 1823);
  • On some of the more important female diseases (1827, 3rd ed 1837);
  • Essay on the circulation of the blood (1832 );
  • On the true spinal marrow and the electromotor system of nerves (1837 );
  • On the reflex functions of the medulla oblongata and medulla spinalis (1833; German by Ernst Dieffenbach, 1840);
  • Lectures on the nervous system and its diseases ( 1836 German, 1836);
  • Memoirs on the nervous system (1837; German of furriers, 1840);
  • Principles of the theory and practice of medicine (1837 ) and others
  • On the mutual relations in between anatomy physiology ... and the practice of medicine ( German Lewin: Fundamentals of the theory and practice of internal diseases Leipzig. Kollmann, 1843)
  • Of the diseases of the nervous system / Marshall Hall. From the English with some critical remarks by J. Wallach. Leipzig: Otto Wigand, 1842

Biography

From his widow published Memoirs of Marshall Hall ( 1861).

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