William Gowers (neurologist)

Sir William Richard Gowers ( born March 20, 1845 in London, † May 4, 1915 ) was a British neurologist. Bear his name

• The Gowers sign, also called Gowersmanöver, a typical finding in patients with progressive muscular dystrophy, as well as
• The anterior spinocerebellar tract ( Gowersbündel ).

Biography

Gowers was the son of William Gowers and his wife Ann Venables. After his school days who had completed Gowers at Christ Church School in Oxford, he began to study medicine at University College London. There he became a pupil et al by Sir William Jenner.

1875 married Mary Baines Gowers. With her he had two daughters and two sons; including the writer Ernest Gowers. Gowers in 1897 was knighted. At the age of 70 years Sir William Richard Gowers died on May 4, 1915 in London.

A great-great grandson of him is the mathematician William Timothy Gowers (* 1963).

Works in German translation

• Diagnosis of spinal cord diseases. 3rd edition. Vienna:. Wilhelm Braumüller, 1885 296 pages.
• Lecture on the diagnosis of brain diseases. (Lectures on the diagnosis of diseases of the brain. ) Freiburg. Mohr, 1886, 296 pages.
• A case of spinal cord tumor with cure by extirpation. (A case of tumor of the spinal cord. ) Berlin: Deer Forest, 1889 71 pages. .
• Manual of nervous diseases. ( A manual of diseases of the nervous System. ) Bonn: Cohen, 1892, 3 vols. .
• Ophthalmoscopy in internal medicine. Leipzig and Vienna: Frank Deuticke, 1893.
• Syphilis and nervous system. ( Syphilis and the nervous System. ) Berlin: Karger, 1893, 85 pages. .
• Epilepsy. ( Epilepsy and other chronic convulsive diseases. ) 2nd edition. Leipzig:. Deuticke, 1902 336 pages.
• The borderland of epilepsy. (The border- land of epilepsy. ) Leipzig. Deuticke, 1908, 116 pages.