David Ferrier (* 13 January 1843 in Woodside with Aberdeen, Scotland; "† 19. March 1928 in London) was a British neuro scientist.

Life

The 1843 born Ferrier studied medicine and became an assistant of the philosopher and psychologist Alexander Bain (1818-1903). On recommending Bains worked Ferrier some time in Germany at Hermann of Helmholtz (1821-1894) and at William Wundt (1832-1920) in Heidelberg, which both concerned themselves as trained physicists with sensory physiology.

Returned to Scotland, attained a doctorate Ferrier at the university from Edinburgh to Medizin.1870 he changed to London, where he at the King' s college hospital and the national hospital for paralysis and epilepsy, which first specialized, worked hospital in neurological diseases in England. The neurologist John Hughlings Jackson (1835-1911), which worked likewise there, gave it the impact to a spreading theoretical concept.

By its friend and Mentor Jackson affected, began Ferrier as well as the German physiologists Eduard heated (1838-1907) and Gustav Fritsch (1838-1927) a large-scale experimental research program. The results were published 1870 (Fritsch, G.T., heated, E.: Over the electrical exciting barness of the Grosshirns. Arch. Anat. Physiol. Med. Wiss. (1870) P. 300-322).

Ferrier died 1928 in London at a lung illness.

Works

• Historical Notes on Poisoning (London, 1872)
• The Localisation OF Cerebral Disease (Goulstonian Lectures, 1878) (London, 1878)
• The Functions OF the Brain (London, 1876; 2nd OD. 1886). Dt.: The Function of the brain. Over. of H. Obersteiner. Braunschweig 1879
• Principles OF Forensic Medicine, William Augustus and David Ferrier (London, 6th OD. 1888)
• Cerebral Localisation (London, 1890)
• The Heart and Nervous system (Harveian Oration, 1902) (London, 1902)
• On of Tabes Dorsalis (Lumleian Lectures, 1906) (London, 1906)

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