Charles Brown , also Charles Edward Brown (* 8 April 1817 in haven Louis, "† 2 April 1894 in Sceaux) was a physiologist and a neurologist. Although its father, who deceased still before its birth on lake, was American and his nut/mother he wanted to be seen time of its life as a Britisher.

Life

Originally it went to Paris, in order to become writers there, however its medicine study took up after only moderate success as a piece writer. When its nut/mother, who had accompanied it to Paris, deceased to 1843 suddenly, it fled in a condition of strong confusion back to Mauritius. Since there was no place for it there, he - with borrowed money - took his study in Paris. After it had locked this 1846, it returned again on its homeland island Mauritius, in order to practice there as a physician, went however 1852 to America. Subsequently, he came again to Paris, before he emigrierte 1859 to London, where he worked as a physician on national the hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery ("„national hospital for neurology and neurosurgery "“), which Nervous system the under the name "„The had been freshly created at that time national hospital for Diseases OF including Paralysis and Epilepsy "“. There it remained for approximately five years, in which it stated its look up-exciting opinions concerning the pathology of the nervous system and exerted large influence on young John Hughlings Jackson. 1861 he was selected into the Royal Society. After it had become in England more and more the workhorse, it fled a further mark, first to Paris. 1864 it crossed a further mark the Atlantic, this time was its goal the Harvard University, at which it received a chair for physiology and neuropathlogy offered. After three years, 1867, he gave the place up and became 1869, two years later, professor at that Paris de before he pulled 1873 a further mark to America over in New York to practice. Last end returned it again to Paris and accepted this time the French nationality, in order to begin 1878 the follow-up of the French physiologist Claude Berne pool of broadcasting corporations as a professor for experimental medicine at the de France, a place, which it held up to its death 1894.

Work

Brown was an eager observer and an experimental physician. It made large contributions for the study of the blood and the nervous system. He was the first scientist, that the physiology of the compiled and pointed out that the crossing of the nerve courses for pain and temperature feeling in back Marks takes place. After it a neurological symptom complex connected with it, which arises during a half side disconnection of the was designated, the Brown syndrome.

In addition it provided valuable work over the endokrine system, assistance of those the up to then most successful results in the treatment by was obtained. In addition, he was an advocate of the subkutanen administration of a liquid won from the testicles of freshly killed house guinea pigs and dogs, which should give longevity - a conviction, with which it made itself once ridiculous in scientific circles, when it reported 1889 how it had itself thereby "„tapered "“. This liquid became under the name Brown Elixier admits. Its research, which appeared in over 500 publications, particularly in the Archives de physiology normal pathologique, which he created 1868 together with Jean Martin Charcot and Flix Alfred Vulpian, et covers a wide range that physiological and pathological questions.

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