David Ferrier

David Ferrier ( born January 13, 1843 in Woodside, Aberdeen, Scotland, † March 19, 1928 in London) was a British neuroscientist.

Life

Born in 1843 Ferrier studied medicine and became assistant to the philosopher and psychologist Alexander Bain ( 1818-1903 ). On the advice Bains Ferrier worked for some time in Germany with Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894) and Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) in Heidelberg, both of which were concerned with sensory physiology as a trained physicist.

On his return to Scotland, Ferrier earned his doctorate at the University of Edinburgh in medicine. In 1870 he moved to London, where he at King's College Hospital and the National Hospital for Paralysis and Epilepsy, the first specialized hospital for neurological disease in England worked. The neurologist John Hughlings Jackson (1835-1911), who worked there, too, gave him the impetus to an overarching theoretical concept.

Influenced by his friend and mentor Jackson, Ferrier began with the German physiologist Eduard Hitzig (1838-1907) and Gustav Fritsch (1838-1927) a large-scale experimental research program. The results were published in 1870 (GT Fritsch, Hitzig E.: On the electrical excitability of the cerebrum Arch Anat Physiol Wiss Med (1870 ), pp. 300-322. .. ).

Ferrier died in 1928 in York House, Kensington ( London) of a lung disease.

Honors

1876 ​​Ferrier was elected as a member ( "Fellow" ) to the Royal Society, in 1890, the Royal Medal awarded him. In 1911 he was knighted for Knight.

Works

  • Historical Notes on poisoning (London, 1872)
  • The Localisation of Cerebral Disease ( Goulstonian Lectures, 1878 ) (London, 1878)
  • The Functions of the Brain (London, 1876; 2nd ed 1886). Dt: ., The function of the brain. Transl. by H. Oberstein. Braunschweig 1879
  • Principles of Forensic Medicine, (London, 6th ed 1888)
  • William Augustus, David Ferrier: Cerebral Localisation (London, 1890)
  • The Heart and Nervous System ( Harveian Oration, 1902 ) (London, 1902)
  • On tabes dorsalis ( Lumleian Lectures, 1906) (London, 1906)

Swell

  • Entry at the Royal Society (English )
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