Henry Charlton Bastian

Henry Charlton Bastian ( born April 26, 1837 in Truro, † November 17, 1915 in Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire ) was a British neurologist.

Life

Besides his great interest in natural history, little is known of Bastian's early years. In 1856 he came to the University College London and graduated from the University of London from 1861. First, he began his work at St. Mary's Hospital in London as a junior doctor and lecturer in pathology. He received his doctorate in 1866 and 1867, he went at the age of 30 years as professor of pathological anatomy at the University of London back. At this time, the teaching in neurology at University College London was dominated by the influence of Sir John Russell Reynolds. William Richard Gowers, too, who had worked for eight years Bastian, was at University College, just after he had approved in 1867 and received his "Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons ( MRCS ) ."

Bastian continued his work in clinical medicine and in 1878 Physikus at University College Hospital. From 1887 to 1898 he was Professor of medical principles and applications, and overlapping commissioned from 1868 to 1902 and from the National Hospital, Queen Square, London. Early on, he turned away from the clinical neurology and dealt again with the issue of spontaneous generation with which he had been employed at the beginning of his career. In his earliest scientific work Bastian dealt with the Guinea worm and other worms that had his research but spontaneously due to an allergy to these creatures set.

In 1866 he married Julia Orme, with whom he had three sons and a daughter.

In 1868 he was appointed at the age of 31 years as a member of the Royal Society. He sat from 1897 to 1898 standards at the Royal College of Physicians in London and received an honorary membership from the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and an honorary doctorate from the Royal University of Ireland. From 1884 to 1898 he was a royal advisor for suspected cases of mental illness.

Writings

• The Modes of Origin of Lowest Organisms. London, 1871.
• The beginnings of life. 2 vols. London 1872.
• On Paralysis From Brain Disease in Its Common Forms. London 1875.
• The Brain as to officers of Mind. London, 1880. Appleton, New York 1880.
• Paralyzes, Cerebral, Bulbar and Spinal. London 1886.
• The "muscular sense"; its nature and cortical localization. Brain, London 1888, 1-137.
• Various Forms of Hysterical Paralysis and Functional. London 1893.
• A Treatise on Aphasia and Other Speech Defects. Lewis, London, 1898.
• Studies in Genesis Straight. 4-pc. London 1901-1903. Together 1904.
• The Nature and Origin of Living Matter. London 1905.
• The Evolution of Life. Methuen, London, 1907.
• The Origin of Life. London, 1911, 1913.
• On the symptomatology of total transverse lesions of the spinal cord; with special reference to the conditions of the various reflexes. Medico - Chirurgical Transactions, London, 1890, 151-217.