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05.07.2023 | Pioneers in Neurology
John Charles Bucknill (1817–1897)
verfasst von:
Andrew J. Larner, Christopher Gardner-Thorpe
Erschienen in:
Journal of Neurology
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Ausgabe 8/2023
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John Charles Bucknill was not a neurologist as currently understood, but an alienist or psychiatrist. Nevertheless, it is the argument of this paper that he merits designation as a “Pioneer in Neurology” for his contributions to the beginnings of
Brain: a journal of neurology, one of the most eminent journals in the field over the past 150 years. Of the founding editors of
Brain, John Hughlings Jackson (1835–1911) [
10] and David Ferrier (1843–1928) [
7] are familiar names to neurologists, and James Crichton-Browne (1840–1938), although an alienist, has been included in the Pioneers series [
2]. Evidently then, Bucknill is the least well-known of
Brain’s founding quadrumvirate, at least in neurological circles. …