John Farquhar Fulton

John Farquhar Fulton ( born November 1, 1899 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, † May 29, 1960 ) was an American neurophysiologist and medical historian. Fulton described in his 1926 dissertation of the Adie Critchley syndrome, which is also known as Fulton's syndrome.

Life

Fulton was the son of Edith ( Wheaton ) and Fulton John Farquhar, a practicing physician who was instrumental in the construction of the Medical School at the University of Minnesota. A road on the university campus was named after the father. The Fulton belonged to the same family as Robert Fulton, builder of the first practical steam ships and the submarine Nautilus.

At age 16, John Farquhar Fulton left the St. Paul High School and enrolled in 1917 at the University of Minnesota one. After his participation in the First World War, he went to Harvard and moved in 1921 to Magdalen College, Oxford University. In 1923 he graduated at Oxford studies in physiology as BA from. Until 1925, he wrote an unusually extensive dissertation of 700 pages with more than a thousand references, which was published in 1926 under the title Muscular contraction and the reflex control of movement. The promotion he put then at Harvard from the magna cum laude. After a stopover on the neurosurgical ward of Harvey Cushing, he again went to Oxford. He then accepted a position at Yale University in New Haven ( Connecticut ) as Sterling Professor of Physiology. During the Second World War, Fulton was Chairman of the Subcommittee for decompression sickness. In 1951 he became Sterling Professor in the newly established field of medical history at Yale, bringing a long career aspirations fulfilled his student days.

Achievements and awards

In addition to his extensive work on the history of medicine and physiological syndromes is very popular with his students Fulton was involved in the first clinical trials of penicillin in the United States. The first prefrontal lobotomy took before 1935 the Portuguese neurologist and Nobel laureate Egas Moniz for medicine with the help of Fulton.

Fulton received numerous honorary degrees and honorary awards, including Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE), the fourth stage of the British Order of Knights Order of the British Empire. Oxford awarded him in 1957 with the Doctor of Letters ( D. suffered. ) From. 1958 awarded him the History Founded by George Sarton and Lawrence Joseph Henderson of Science Society ( HSS) the George Sarton Medal, the highest prestigious award for the History of Science. In addition, Fulton was the first winner of the Franz- Groedel Medal, which was created in 1955 by the German Cardiac Society in memory of Franz Maximilian Groedel

Writings (selection )

• Muscular contraction and the reflex control of movement. Doctorate thesis. Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1926.
• Selected Reading in the History of Physiology. Edited by John Farquhar Fulton. Springfield, Illinois, Baltimore, Maryland, CC Thomas, 1930.
• The Sign of Babinský. A Study of the Evolution of Cortical Dominance in Primates' Charles C Thomas, Springfield, Illinois, 1932
• A Bibliography of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Fellow of the Royal Society. Oxford: University Press, 1932, 2nd edition, Oxford: . Clarendon Press, 1961.
• A bibliography of two Oxford Physiologists; Richard Lower, 1631-1691; John Mayow, 1643-1679. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1935.
• Physiology of the Nervous System. Textbook. In 1938.
• Harvey Cushing, a biography. Springfield, Illinois, C. C. Thomas, 1946.
• The great medical bibliographers, a study in humanism. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1951.
• Selected reading in the history of physiology, comp. by John F. Fulton, completed by Leonard G. Wilson. Springfield, Ill., Thomas [c 1966 ].