MJ Aminoff, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
Published online: May 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002375
1817–1894 Mauritian-born British (later French) physiologist who defined the sensory pathways in the spinal cord, emphasized the importance of functional processes in the operation of the nervous system, showed experimentally that the adrenal glands are essential to life, and founded modern hormone replacement therapy by his use of organ extracts.
Keywords: sensory pathways; excitation; inhibition; hormones; organ extracts
| Further Reading | |
| book Brown-Séquard CE (1860) Course of Lectures on the Physiology and Pathology of the Central Nervous System. Philadelphia: Collins. | |
| book Brown-Séquard CE (1878) Notice sur les travaux scientifiques de M.C.E. Brown-Séquard. Paris: Masson. | |
| Brown-Séquard CE (1889) Note on the effects produced on man by subcutaneous injections of a liquid obtained from the testicles of animals. Lancet ii: 105–107. | |
| book Aminoff MJ (1993) Brown-Séquard: A Visionary of Science. New York: Raven Press. | |
| book Berthelot M (1898) Notice sur la vie et les travaux de M. Brown-Séquard. Paris: Institut de France. | |
| book Olmsted JMD (1946) Charles Edouard Brown-Séquard. A Nineteenth Century Neurologist and Endocrinologist. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. | |
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