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FERRIER, David (1843-1928)

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Born: 1843

Died: 1928

Title: Sir

Editorial Description

born and educated at Aberdeen where he was a student of A. BAIN; MB Edin 1868, MD 1870; prof of neuropathology Kings College Hosp; by providing a solid empirical basis for localization of brain function he gave the death knell to phrenological localization as based on symptoms; charter M Physiological Soc and, in 1878, joined with Hughlings Jackson, Bucknill and CRIGHTON-BROWNE in founding the journal Brain; knighted 1911. (DNB and A214)

Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)

400.1 — 400.1 The Functions of the Brain. London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1876. Pp. 323. 2nd ed., enlarged, 1886.

Editorial Information

Identifier	400.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	137
Printed page	132
Database ID	1279

Original Transcription

400. FERRIER, Sir David (1843-1928), born and educated at Aberdeen where he was a student of A. BAIN; MB Edin 1868, MD 1870;
prof of neuropathology Kings College Hosp; by providing a solid
empirical basis for localization of brain function he gave the death
knell to phrenological localization as based on symptoms; charter M
Physiological Soc and, in 1878, joined with Hughlings Jackson, Bucknill and CRIGHTON-BROWNE in founding the journal Brain; knighted
1911. (DNB and A214)