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Edward Constant Séquin MD 1843-1898
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B. Paris, son of physician Edouard Séquin
Father moved them in 1846 to USA
College P&S-1864
Military time- Little Rock, Ark & New Mexico
Paris 1869-70 with Brown-Séquard & Charcot.
Prof of Diseases of Nervous System at College of P&S 1870
Contributions:
– Autopsy of multiple sclerosis
– Spastic paraplegia
– Introduction of medical thermometry
Leader in foundation of the Neurology department of
Vanderbilt Clinic, College of P&S, Director
– Important place of training for neurologists and
medical students until it closed in 1929 when College
of P&S entered the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical
Center.
Editor of many journals, one with Brown-Séquard
With Hammond, he founded the organs of Neurology in
NYC
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Mosses Allen Starr MD (1854-1932)
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B. Brooklyn; Princeton 1876, College P&S 1880
Bellevue Residency
Europe –Helmholtz (Germany) Erb ( Heidelberg) ; Nothnagel, &
Meynert (Vienna), Charcot (Paris)
Prof of Nervous Disease; New York Polyclinic
Medical school 1884-1888
Prof of Nervous Disease, College of P&S 1888-1918 (succeeded
Séquin)
Lived and worked on upper East Side NYC
President of ANA 1897
Contributions:
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sensory tracts localization in CNS
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apraxia,
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Localization of brain tumors
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polyneuritis
Books:
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Lectures on Diseases of the Mind (1891)
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Lecture on Disease of the Nervous System (1891)
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Familiar Forms of Nervous Disease(1903)
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Organic and Functional Nervous Diseases (1913)
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10 editions
New York Neurology Triumvirate: Star, Dana, Sachs
Moses Allen Starr MD
Books
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Charles Loomis Dana MD (1852-1935)
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B. Vermont; Dartmouth in 1872
College of P&S 1877, Bellevue residency (Flint,
Janeway)
Then neurologist at Bellevue (Hammond there too)
Prof of Dis of Mind & Nervous system, NY Post-Grad
Hospital (1884-1895)
Prof of Dis of Nervous System, the new Cornell Univ
Med College (1898-1922)
– Teaching Cornell med students neurology
President of ANA 1892 & 1928
Contributions:
– Brain damage in alcohol
– Transverse myelitis
– Spinal nerve relief section for pain spastic paralysis
Books: Text Book of Nervous Disease and Psychiatry for
the Use of Students and Practitioners of Medicine 1892; 10 editions
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Charles Loomis Dana MD (1852-1935)
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Charaka Club; & Proceedings of the Charaka Club
Founded with Collins, Sachs, Peterson 1892-1947
Literary society of physicians: presented papers on
philosophy , ancient medicine, history & literary
aspects of medicine.
Members- Mitchell, Pearce Bailey, Smith Ely Jeliffe,
Foster Kennedy, John Shaw Billings, Fielding Garrison,
and Harvey Cushing; Osler was an honorary member
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Bernard Sachs MD 1858-1944
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B. in Baltimore; Harvard 1878 (influenced by William James)
Medical school Strasbourg 1882
Studied with Meynert (Vienna), Jackson (London), Charcot (Paris),
Westphal (Berlin)
Practiced neurology at Mount Sinai Hospital NYC
Translated Meynert’s text of psychiatry
President ANA 1894 & 1932
Dept. of Neurology at MT Sinai established 1890
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“On Arrested Cerebral Development with Special Reference to Its
Cortical Pathology” (1887)
– Tay in England described ocular blindness
Prof of Nerv and Mental Dis New York Polyclinic till 1925
Prof Clin Neurology Columbia (1933)
Dir Div Child neurology, NY Neuro Inst. (1934)
Books;
Nervous disease of Children (1894)
Nervous and Mental Disorders from Birth Through Adolescence
(1926)
Neurologic Institute of New York
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Pearce Bailey MD
Joseph Collins MD
Frederick
Peterson MD
Founded 1909 by Pearce Bailey, Joseph Collins,
Joseph Fraenkel, and neurosurgeon Charles
Elsberg,
• Dana and Sachs –consultants
Letter from Dr. Collins 1909
“ Dr. Joseph Fraenkel and I have for a long time been
nurturing plans for the establishment in New York of
a small hospital for the study and treatment of
nervous diseases, particularly the so-called functional
varieties including brief and curable mental
disorders”
• Then: Frederick Peterson, Ramsay Hunt, Foster
Kennedy, Smith Ely Jeliffe, Frederick Tilney.
• 1929 moved to 168th and Fort Washington Ave.
Became affiliated with the College of P&S of
Columbia Univ. and the Columbia-Presbyterian
Medical Center
Other New York Neurologist
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Smith Ely Jeliffe (1866-1944)
Diseases of the Nervous System: A text book of Nervous
and Mental Diseases- 1915
James Ramsay Hunt (1878-1937)
B. Phili, U of Penn (studied under Mills)
Studied in Europe:
– Oppenheim, Marie, Dejerine, Babinski
1900-Cornell with Dana
1907: Herpetic inflammation of the geniculate ganglion
1910-College of P&S until retirement
Frederick Tilney (1876-1938)
The Brain and Functions of the Central Nervous System1920
The head of Neurological Institute 1920-1930
Ambrose L. Ranney (1848-1905)
Prof of Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System in
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New York Post Graduated Medical School & Hospital
Lecture on Nervous Disease: From the standpoint of
cerebral & spinal localization: And the later methods
employed in the diagnosis and treatment of these
Affections