Henry Head

Sir Henry Head (* August 4, 1861 in London, † October 8, 1940 ) was an English neurologist.

Life

Head first studied natural sciences, then medicine at the University of Cambridge. In 1892 he received his doctorate. He worked on the somatosensory system and sensory nerves. He conducted numerous experiments on himself. Named after the Head Head's zones, the Head- Holmes syndrome and Head - Riddoch syndrome.

Head was elected in 1899 a member of the Royal Society of London in 1900 and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London. 1908, the Royal Medal of the Royal Society awarded him. 1932 Head member of the Leopoldina.

Works

  • On the regulation of respiration. Journal of Physiology, Cambridge, 1889, 10: 1-70, 279-290.
  • On the disturbances of sensation, with special reference to the pain of visceral disease. Thesis for M.D. Brain, Oxford, 1893, 16: 1-133. Brain, Oxford, 1894, 17: 339-480. Brain, Oxford, 1896, 19: 153-276. ( German: The sensory disturbances of the skin in Visceralerkrankungen Übers by Friedrich Wilhelm Seiffer with a foreword by Julius Eduard Hitzig Berlin, Deer Forest, 1898.. . )
  • Together with Alfred Walter Campbell (1868-1937): The pathology of herpes zoster and its bearing on sensory location. Brain, London, 1900, 23: 353-523.
  • Together with William Halse Rivers (1864-1922) and Sherren James (1872-1945): The afferent nervous system from a new aspect. Brain, London, 1905, 28: 99-115.
  • Along with James Sherren: The Consequences of injury to the peripheral nerves in man. Brain, London, 1905, 28: 116-138.
  • William Halse Rivers and Sir Henry Head: A human experiment in nerve division. Brain, London, 1908, 31: 323-450.
  • Henry Head and Theodore Harold Thompson (1878-1935): The grouping of afferent impulse within the spinal cord. Brain, 1906, 29: 537-741.
  • Henry Head and Gordon Morgan Holmes: Sensory disturbances from cerebral lesions. Brain, 1911, 34: 102-254.
  • Henry Head, WHR Rivers, Gordon Morgan Holmes, J. Sherren, HT Thompson, G. Riddoch: Studies in Neurology. 2 vols. London, H. Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton, 1920.
  • Together with William Halse Rivers: Studies in Neurology. 2 vols. London, 1920.
  • Aphasia and kindred disorders of speech. 2 vols. Cambridge University Press London, 1926.
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