1835 Hughlings Jackson is born.
1837 Henry Charlton Bastian is born.
1843 David Ferrier is born.
1845 Thomas Barlow is born.
1845 William Gowers is born.
1845 Fletcher Beach is born.
1847 Byrom Bramwell is born.
1852 Judson Sykes Bury is born.
1854 Charles Edward Beevor is born.
1856 Charles Alfred Ballance is born.
1857 Victor Horsley is born.
1858 Leonard Guthrie is born.
1860 The
National Hospital for the Paralyzed and Epileptic is founded in a small house
in Queen Square, Bloomsbury (discussion here).
1861 Henry Head is born.
1862 Hughlings Jackson joins the
staff at the National Hospital.
1864 William Aldren Turner is born.
1867 Joseph Shaw Bolton is born.
1867 Julius
Alhaus, a German physician, opens the London Infirmary for Epilepsy and
Paralysis
1868 Henry
Charlton Bastian is elected Assistant Physician to the National Hospital for
the Paralyzed and Epileptic.
1869 Henry
Charlton Bastian publishes a paper on aphasia titled, On the Various Forms
of Loss of Speech in Cerebral Disease.
1869 Hugh Kerr Anderson is born.
1870 Bertram Louis Abrahams is born.
1871 Edward Farquhar Buzzard is born.
1871 James Crichton-Browne founds the West Riding Lunatic Asylum Medical Reports.
1872 London
Infirmary for Epilepsy and Paralysis changes its name to Maida Vale Hospital
for Diseases of the Nervous System
1873 Edwin Bramwell is born.
1873 Walter Morley Fletcher is born.
1875 American Neurological
Association is founded.
1875 Arthur Stanley Barnes is born (biography here).
1875 Henry Charlton Bastian publishes
Paralysis from Brain Disease.
1876 David Ferrier publishes The
Functions of the Brain.
1876 The West Riding Lunatic Asylum Medical Reports cease publication.
1876 Maida
Vale Hospital changes its name to Hospital for Epilepsy and Paralysis and other
Diseases of the Nervous System
1876 Mind – a Journal of Philosophy begins.
1877 Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson
is born.
1877 Francis Carmichael Purser is
born.
1877 Frederick Lucien Golla is born.
1878 Brain – a Journal of Neurology begins.
1878 Thomas Grainger Stewart is born.
1878 Dr
Henry Tibbits founds The West End Hospital for Diseases of the Nervous System,
Paralysis, and Epilepsy.
1879 George Hall is born.
1880 The Ophthalmological Society of
the United Kingdom is founded.
1880 Henry
Charlton Bastian publishes The Brain as an Organ of the Mind, which is
translated into French and German.
1881 Byrom
Bramwell publishes Diseases of the Spinal Cord, which is subsequently
translated into French, German, and Russian.
1882 Thomas Graham Brown is born.
1885 Anthony Feiling is born.
1885 Francis Walshe is born.
1886 The Idiots Act is passed into
law.
1886 William John Adie is born.
1886 Henry
Charlton Bastian publishes Paralyses, Cerebral, Bulbar, and Spinal.
1886 The Neurological Society of
London is founded.
1887 Henry
Charlton Bastian occupies the Chair of Medicine at University College Hospital.
1888 George Riddoch is born.
1889 David
Ferrier is appointed to the Chair of Neuropathology – a position specifically
created for him.
1889 William Gifford Wyllie is born.
1889 Ronald Grey Gordon is born.
1890 The Lunacy Act is passed into
law.
1890 Charles Symonds is born (biography here).
1890 Philip Cloake is born.
1891 Frederick Nattrass is born.
1892 William
Osler publishes The Principles and Practice of Medicine, which for the
first time includes the changes that have been introduced into medicine by
bacteriology.
1892 William
Aldren Turner is appointed Assistant to David Ferrier in the King’s College
Neuropathological Laboratory.
1893 Henry
Charlton Bastian publishes Various Forms of Hysterical or Functional
Paralysis.
1893 James Ross and Judson Sykes Bury
publish Peripheral Neuritis.
1895 Dorothy Russell is born.
1895 Thomas
Barlow occupies the Holme chair of Clinical Medicine at University College
London.
1895 Fletcher
Beach publishes Treatment and Education of Mentally Feeble Children.
1896 The Belgian Neurological Society
is founded.
1898 Charles Beevor publishes a Handbook
on Diseases of the Nervous System.
1899 The Neurological Society of
Paris is founded.
1899 William
Aldren Turner is appointed Assistant Physician at King’s College Hospital.
1899 Eric Alfred Blake Pritchard is
born.
1899 Fergus Ferguson is born (biography here).
1900 William Esmond Rees is born.
1903 Edward Graeme Robertson is born.
1903 Hugh Gregory Garland is born.
1903 William Ritchie Russell is born.
1903 Bertram
Louis Abrahams is appointed assistant physician to the Westminster Hospital,
where he lectures in physiology and medicine.
1904 William Osler becomes Regius
Professor of Medicine at Oxford.
1904 John St. Clair Elkington is
born.
1905 Samuel Nevin is born.
1905 Thomas
Grainger Stewart and Gordon Holmes publish their landmark paper,
‘Symptomatology of Cerebellar Tumours’.
1906 Charles
Sherrington publishes The Integrative
Action of the Nervous System.
1907 St Mary’s Teaching Hospital
founds a Department of Neurology.
1907 Leonard Guthrie publishes
Functional Nervous Disorders of Children.
1907 The Swedish Neurological Society
is founded.
1907 The
Royal Society of Medicine is formed and the Section of Neurology is created out
of the Neurological Society of the United Kingdom, which subsequently disbands.
1907 Charles
Beevor publishes “his most important research” on the arterial supply to all
parts of the brain, filling a gap in “contemporary knowledge”. This comes out
in Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society.
1908 Paul Harmer Sandifer is born.
1908 Charles Beevor dies.
1908 Bertram Louis Abrahams dies.
1908 William
Aldren Turner is promoted to Physician in charge of Neurological Cases and
becomes Lecturer in Neurology in King’s Medical School.
1909 The
Amsterdam Neurological Society is founded, and the Swiss Neurological Society
also is founded.
1909 The Neurological Institute of
New York is founded.
1910 Robert
Porter is born. Evidence suggests that he never becomes a member of the
Association of British Neurologists, despite building a new department of
neurology at the Central Middlesex Hospital from 1947 until 1962. He is not
listed as a member of the Neurological Section of the Royal Society of
Medicine.
1910 Joseph
Shaw Bolton becomes Director of the West Riding Mental Hospital.
1910 William
Aldren Turner and Thomas Grainger Stewart publish Textbook of Nervous
Diseases.
1910 Thomas Barlow is elected
President of the Royal College of Physicians.
1911 Hughlings Jackson dies.
1911 Joseph
Shaw Bolton is appointed to the Chair of Mental Diseases at the University of
Leeds.
1912 Samuel
Alexander Kinnear Wilson describes progressive lenticular degeneration which
becomes eponymously known as ‘Wilson’s disease.’
1912 Hugh Kerr Anderson becomes
Master of Caius College, Cambridge.
1912 A
special department for Diseases of the Nervous System is established at the
Middlesex Hospital Medical School with H Campbell Thomson in charge.
1912 Judson Bury publishes Diseases
of the Nervous System.
1913 Thomas
Barlow is elected President of the International Medical Congress.
1913 Henry Miller is born.
1913 The Mental Deficiency Act is passed
into law.
1914 The Medical Research Committee
is formed.
1914 The First World War begins.
1914 Joseph
Shaw Bolton publishes an important but largely ignored work The Brain in
Health and Disease.
1914 R.
MacNab Marshall is appointed to the Victorian Infirmary, Glasgow, as a
Physician for Diseases of the Nervous System.
1915 Henry Charlton Bastian dies.
1915 The
West End Hospital for Diseases of the Nervous System, Paralysis, and Epilepsy
becomes The West End Hospital for Nervous Diseases.
1915 Francis
Walshe is appointed Major, RAMC. He is wrongly remembered as a consultant
neurologist in the Army; however, the British military never officially
recognizes neurology as a specialty – this
from his letters.
1915 William Gowers dies.
1917 John Stanton is born.
1918 The First World War ends.
1918 Leonard Guthrie dies.
1919 Samuel
Alexander Kinnier Wilson is appointed Neurologist at King’s College Hospital.
1919 William
Osler dies and is remembered as the greatest personality in the medical world
at the time of his death and on both sides of the ocean.
1919 Charles
Ballance publishes a monograph titled, Essays on the Surgery of the Brain.
1920 The Norwegian Neurological
Society is founded.
1920 Thomas
Graham Brown becomes Professor of Physiology at the Welsh National School of
Medicine.
1920 Charles
Symonds is appointed physician in nervous diseases to Guy’s Hospital in the
clinic established by Sir Arthur Hurst.
1920 Samuel
Alexander Kinnier Wilson becomes editor of resurrected Edinburgh Review of
Neurology and Psychiatry, and renames it the Journal of Neurology and
Psychopathology.
1921 Edward
Farquhar Buzzard and J G Greenfield published Pathology of the Nervous
System.
1921 Edwin Bramwell reports making
£5000 from his practice alone.
1922 Edwin
Bramwell becomes Professor of Medicine at Edinburgh University after receiving
the Moncrieff-Arnot Chair of Medicine there.
1922 Price
publishes a handbook of medicine, and asks James Collier and William John Adie
to the author the chapter on diseases of the nervous system. Critchley recalled
that students (himself included) would buy the book, tear out the pages devoted
to neurology, tenderly bind them, and discard the rest of the volume.
1923 William
Gifford Wyllie becomes Medical Registrar and Pathologist at Great Ormond Street
Hospital, which places him in position to become one of the countries first
paediatric neurologists.
1923 Frederick
Golla becomes Director of the Central Pathological Laboratory at Maudsley
Hospital.
1923 Anthony
Feiling becomes Assistant Physician at St George’s. From this period onwards,
he co-presides over the open neurological demonstration clinic there with James
Collier.
1924 Edward Farquhar Buzzard becomes
Physician Extraordinary to the King.
1924 Thomas
Grainger Stewart becomes a full physician at the National Hospital.
1925 The
Association of Physicians meets in Edinburgh, where Byrom Bramwell is presented
with a portrait.
1926 National
Hospital, Queen Square is renamed the National Hospital for the Relief and Cure
of Diseases of the Nervous System including Paralysis and Epilepsy.
1926 Francis
Carmichael Purser is given the “complementary post” of honorary professor in
neurology, Dublin University.
1926 Anthony Feiling becomes Dean of
St George’s Medical School.
1926 Joseph
Shaw Bolton publishes a polemic against the Freudian school of psychiatry
entitled Myth of the Unconscious Mind.
1926 Ronald Grey Gordon publishes Personality.
1926 Hugh
Kerr Anderson enters into negotiations with the Rockefeller Foundation, which
lead to a gift of £700,000 towards the construction of new University Library
and facilities for biological research at Cambridge.
1927 Edwin
Bramwell becomes President of the Neurological Section of the Royal Society of
Medicine.
1927 Ronald Grey Gordon publishes Neurotic
Personality.
1927 George
Hall is appointed Physician, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle where his
“interests are mainly neurological”.
1928 Hugh Kerr Anderson dies.
1928 David Ferrier dies.
1928 Samuel
Alexander Kinnear Wilson publishes Modern Problems in Neurology.
1928 Edward Farquhar Buzzard becomes
Regius Professor of Medicine at
Oxford.
1928 James
Birley succeeds Farquhar Buzzard as Director of the neurological department at
St Thomas’ Hospital.
1928 Dorothy Russell spends a year in
Boston and works with Frank Mallory.
1928 William
Aldren Turner retires from King’s College Hospital, and is appointed Consulting
Physician to the Hospital and Emeritus Lecturer on Neurology in the Medical
School.
1928 Macdonald
Critchley is appointed to King’s College Hospital staff in Neurology.
1929 The
Ferrier Prize in Neurology is established at King’s in 1929 by his friends and
colleagues to commemorate his life and work. The prize was worth £20 and included
a bronze medal.
1929 The Local Government Act is
passed into law.
1929 Donald
Armour is elected President of the Neurological Section of the Royal Society of
Medicine.
1929 Dorothy
Russell spends a year in Montreal at the Neurological Institute, and works with
Wilder Penfield.
1929 Fletcher Beach dies.
1929 The
Ferrier Prize in Neurology is established at King’s College, and awarded £20
and bronze medal to its winner.
1930 Douglas
McAlpine receives patronage through his father and creates an inpatient
neurological clinic at Middlesex Hospital.
1930 The
Poor Law and Mental Treatment Acts are passed into law.
c. 1930 Eric
Alfred Blake Pritchard becomes a Physician at University College Hospital and
the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases.
1931 Byrom
Bramwell dies.
1931 Frederick
Nattrass publishes a textbook titled: The Commoner Nervous Diseases.
1931 Arthur
Stanley Barnes becomes Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of
Birmingham.
1932 First
meeting of the Association of British Neurologists.
1932 Edgar
Adrian and Charles Sherrington share the Nobel Prize in Physiology.
1932 John
St. Clair Elkington is appointed neurologist to St Thomas’s Hospital.
1933 Association
of British Neurologists hold their inaugural general meeting at the Medical
Society of London. Wilfred Harris is the first President.
1933 Edward
Arnold Carmichael is appointed Director of the MRC Clinical Neurological
Research Unit. His appointment is on a five year basis.
1933 William
Rees appointed Assistant physician, Cardiff Royal Infirmary.
1933 Dorothy
Russell is appointed to the scientific staff of the Medical Research Council at
London Hospital.
1933 Philip
Cloake becomes a professor of medicine at Birmingham.
1933 Edwin
Bramwell is elected President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
c. 1933 Conrad
Meredyth Hind Howell starts a neurological consultative clinic at St
Bartholowmew’s Hospital. This experience convinces him of the desirability of
having a neurologist on the staff when he retired in 1937, and he welcomes the
appointment of Dr Denny Brown.
1934 Donald
Elms Core dies.
1934 The
Nottingham General Hospital establishes an Out-Patient Nerve Clinic.
1934 Francis
Carmichael Purser becomes Kings Professor of the Practice of Medicine at
Trinity College, Dublin.
1934 Hughlings
Jackson Centenary Dinner is celebrated in London.
1934 The
Polish Neurological Society is founded.
1934 Francis
Carmichael Purser dies.
1935 Edward
Graeme Robertson returns to Australia, where he becomes an important leader in
Australian neurology.
1935 William
John Adie dies.
1936 Professor
Edwin Bramwell becomes President of the Association of British Neurologists.
1936 The
Greek Neurological Society is founded.
1936 Anthony
Feiling resigns his deanship over St George’s Medical School, which is
described as unremarkable, although he does hire their first psychiatrist,
Desmond Curran.
1936 Charles
Alfred Ballance dies.
1936 Edward
Farquhar Buzzard delivers his presidential speech to the British Medical Association
in which he outlines his vision of the perfect medical school. Lord Nuffield is
in the audience and subsequently helps Buzzard realize his dream with a grant
of more than one million pounds to Oxford University.
1937 Derek
Denny Brown is appointed as Neurologist to the Hospital at St Bartholomew’s,
although there is no special department of neurology.
1937 Francis
Walshe becomes Editor of Brain.
1937 The
Association of British Neurologists invites the members of the Neurological
Society of Amsterdam to meet with them in London.
1937 Frederick
Golla is appointed to the Chair of Mental Pathology, University of London
1937 The
Maida Vale Hospital changes its name to Maida Vale Hospital for Nervous
Diseases (including Epilepsy and Paralysis).
1937 Samuel
Alexander Kinnier Wilson dies.
1937 Edward
Arnold Carmichael becomes the editor of the Journal of Neurology and
Psychopathology upon the death of Kinnier Wilson, and the journal is renamed
the Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry. The committee includes: G Jefferson,
Aubrey Lewis, A Meyer, R A McCance, Denis Williams, E D Adrian, R G Gordon, J G
Greenfield, F C Bartlett, and W Russell Brain.
1937 Samuel
Nevin is appointed to King’s College as an Assistant neurologist, taking over
the spot vacated by Kinnier Wilson.
1938 The
Institute for the Teaching and Study of Neurology opens at the National
Hospital, Queen Square.
1938 Edward
Farquhar Buzzard becomes President of the Association of British Neurologists.
1938 Derek
Denny Brown is appointed Neurologist at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. His is the
first official neurological appointment, although other physicians of nervous
diseases such as J A Ormerod, H H Tooth, and C. M Hinds Howell have held
positions there. No department of neurology is founded at the same time.
1938 William
Ritchie Russell is appointed lecturer in neurology at Edinburgh University.
1939 Frederick
Golla becomes Director of the Burden Neurological Institute in Bristol, where
the first trials of electroconvulsive therapy are pioneered in Britain.
1939 Whyllie
McKissock is appointed “Associate Neurological Surgeon” in March 1939 at Great
Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children.
1939 Fergus
Ferguson is appointed Consultant neurologist to the Western Command and the
Emergency Medical Services.
1939 The
Second World War begins.
1939 George
Riddoch is appointed heat of the E.M.S. Neurological Unit at Chase Farm
Hospital. 1939 -- also advises the E.M.S. on the organization of the Peripheral
Nerve Injuries Centres
1940 Henry
Head dies.
1940 Samuel
Alexander Kinnear Wilson’s textbook, Neurology, is published
posthumously by A. N. Bruce.
1940 Francis
Walshe publishes Diseases of the Nervous System.
1941 Fredrick
Nattrass is appointed to the first Whole-time Chair of Medicine in Newcastle.
1941 The
first leucotomy is performed in Britain at the Burden Neurological Institute.
1941 Arthur
Stanley Barnes retires from his deanship of the Faculty of Medicine, University
of Birmingham.
1941 John
Gaylor is appointed neurologist to the Western Infirmary, Glasgow.
c.1941 Samuel
Nevin becomes Director of the Research Laboratory at the Institute of
Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital.
1943 Edward
Farquhar Buzzard resigns as Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford.
1944 The
Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry changes its name to the Journal of
Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry.
1944 Judson
Sykes Bury dies.
1945 The
Second World War ends.
1945 Stanley
Barnes is elected President of the Association of British Neurologists.
1945 Edward
Farquhar Buzzard dies.
1945 Helen
Dimsdale and Dorothy Russell are elected to the Association of British
Neurologists. Helen Dimsdale eventually becomes treasurer.
1946 St
Bartholomew’s appoints Dr J W Aldren Turner Neurologist to the Hospital and
creates a department with beds for him.
1946 Hugh
Garland founds and becomes Physician in Charge of Neurological Department at
Leeds General Infirmary.
1946 Dr
J W Aldren Turner is appointed Neurologist to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in a
Special Department of Neurology and he is given a small number of beds.
1946 Francis
Walshe is elected to the Royal Society.
1946 Philip
Cloak resigns his chair of medicine, and takes a part-time Personal Chair in
neurology at Birmingham. He tries to create a tripartite academic division of
neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry but fails.
1946 Dorothy
Russell becomes Professor of Morbid Anatomy at London Hospital, and becomes
Director of the Bernhard Baron Institute of Pathology. She is the first woman
in the Western World to head a department of pathology.
1946 Gordon
Holmes is elected President of the Association of British Neurologists and
resigns his post as Secretary.
1946 Macdonald
Critchley becomes Secretary of the Association of British Neurologists.
1947 Robert
Porter is appointed Physician with a special interest in Neurology at the
Central Middlesex Hospital. When he answers a questionnaire from the Neurology
Committee of the Royal College of Physicians in the early 1960s, he identifies
himself as a general physician working in neurology there.
1947 Alan
Barham Carter becomes a Consultant physician in Ashford, where he works as a
general physician with an interest in neurology for the next thirty-one years.
1947 Thomas
Graham Brown retires from the Chair of Physiology at the Welsh National School
of Medicine.
1947 George
Riddoch dies.
1947 Maida
Vale and the National Hospital merge but with the result that really Queen
Square becomes the dominant London hospital for neurology.
1948 Hugh
Garland becomes consultant neurologist to the Leeds Regional Hospital Board.
1948 Francis
Walshe publishes Critical Studies in Neurology.
1948 Edgar
Adrian is elected President of the Association of British Neurologists.
1948 Neurosurgical
unit is created in Aberdeen.
1948 William
Ritchie Russell becomes the editor of the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery,
and Psychiatry.
1948 Martin
Nichols becomes the first neurosurgeon appointed at the Aberdeen Royal
Infirmary.
1948 The Canadian Neurological
Society is founded.
1948 The American Academy of
Neurology is founded.
1948 William
Rees appointment as Consultant physician is changed to Consultant neurologist
at Swansea General Hospital, Morriston Hospital, and Neath Hospital – all
positions he holds until 1967.
1949 Hugh
Garland becomes Editor of the Leeds University Medical Journal.
1950 The
Institute of Neurology – an amalgamation of the National and Maida Vale
Hospitals for Nervous Diseases – affiliates with the University of London.
1950 The
National Institute for Neurological Diseases and Blindness is founded in the
United States because of Public Law 692.
1950 Francis
Walshe is elected President of the Association of British Neurologists.
1950 Edward
Graeme Roberts (and several Australian neurologists) form the Australian
Association of Neurologists. It seems clear that this Association was modeled
on the Association of British Neurologists.
1950 Ronald
Grey Gordon dies.
1951 John
Stanton is appointed Senior Registrar in Psychiatry at Newcastle upon Tyne
working under Alexander Kennedy. Kennedy hires the neurologically minded
Stanton because of a desire to make psychiatry more organic in its focus.
Stanton’s subsequent years are marked by a neuropsychiatric outlook typical to
Newcastle, even though he moves to Edinburgh in 1953.
1951 Frederick
Nattrass writes a chapter titled “Diseases of the Nervous System” which appears
in Chamberlain’s Textbook of Medicine.
c.1951 Samuel
Nevin introduces the electron microscope to British neurology.
1952 Edwin
Bramwell dies.
1952 Francis
Walshe becomes President of the Royal Society of Medicine.
1952 Arthur
Stanley Barnes publishes a History of the Birmingham Medical Centre.
1952 J
G Greenfield is elected President of the Association of British Neurologists.
1952 Macdonald
Critchley resigns as Secretary of the Association of British Neurologists.
1952 Edward
Arnold Carmichael becomes Secretary of the Association of British Neurologists.
1953 Great
Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children establishes a Department of Neurology
headed up by Paul Sandifer. Paul Sandifer thus becomes the first
institutionally recognized pediatric neurologist in Britain.
1953 Francis
Walshe resigns as Editor of Brain.
1953 Western
General Hospital creates a Neurology Unit at the Northern General Hospital
alongside Respiratory Medicine and Rheumatology. John Marshall heads the unit.
1954 Anthony
Feiling is elected President of the Association of British Neurologists.
1955 Charles
Symonds retires from the neurology department of Guy’s Hospital.
1955 Hugh
Garland retires as Editor of the Leeds University Medical Journal.
1955 Denis
Williams becomes Secretary of the Association of British Neurologists.
1955 Dr
Giuseepe Pampiglione is appointed as the first Neurophysiologist to Great
Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children.
1955 George
Hall dies.
1956 Charles
Symonds is elected President of the Association of British Neurologists.
1957 Thomas
Grainger Stewart dies.
1958 Professor
F J Nattrass is elected President of the Association of British Neurologists.
1958 Henry
Miller establishes a new department of neurology at Newcastle.
1959 Dorothy
Russell publishes Pathology of Tumors of the Nervous System.
1960 W
Russell Brain is elected President of the Association of British Neurologists.
1960 William
Gooddy becomes Secretary of the Association of British Neurologists.
1960 Dorothy
Russell become Emeritus Professor.
1961 Henry
Miller becomes Reader in Neurology, Royal Victoria Infirmary and University of Newcastle.
1961 Helen
Dimsdale becomes treasurer of the Association of British Neurologists.
1962 Macdonald
Critchley becomes President of the Association of British Neurologists.
1962 Eric
Alfred Blake Pritchard dies.
1963 John
St. Clair Elkington dies.
1964 Henry
Miller becomes Professor of Neurology, Royal Victoria Infirmary and University
of Newcastle.
1964 R
A Henson becomes Secretary of the Association of British Neurologists.
1964 Fergus
Ferguson is elected President of the Association of British Neurologists.
1965 Francis
Walshe publishes Further Critical Studies in Neurology.
1965 The
first specialist neurological post in Aberdeen is created, although a
neurosurgical unit has existed there since 1948.
1965 John
A Simpson becomes the First Professor of Neurology at the University of
Glasgow.
1965 Alan
Downie becomes the first Consultant neurologist in the Aberdeen Royal
Infirmary.
1965 Thomas
Graham Brown dies.
1966 R
S Allison is elected President of the Association of British Neurologists.
1966 Henry
Miller becomes Vice-Chancellor, University of Newcastle.
1966 William
Ritchie Russell is appointed to the first chair of neurology at Oxford.
1966 Helen
Dimsdale resigns as Treasurer of the Association of British Neurologists.
1967 Hugh
Garland dies at the age of 64.
1968 Graham
Wakefield becomes the first consultant neurologist appointed at the Royal
United Hospital in Bath. He initially engages in general medical work, but
eventually concentrates on adult neurological service.
1968 Frederick
Golla dies.
1968 W
Ritchie Russell is elected President of the Association of British
Neurologists.
1969 William
Gifford Wyllie dies.
1969 Philip
Cloake dies.
1969 Robert
Porter dies.
1970 The
collected papers of Charles Symonds are published as Studies in Neurology,
which was subsequently reviewed by the Times
Literary Supplement.
1970 Samuel
Nevin is elected President of the Association of British Neurologists.
1970 John
Bernard Stanton dies at the young age of 51.
1973 Francis M. R. Walshe dies.
1974 Fergus
Ferguson dies.
1975 Edward
Graeme Robertson dies in Australia.
1975 Anthony
Feiling dies.
1976 Henry
Miller dies.
1978 Charles
Symonds dies.
1979 Frederick
Nattrass dies.
1979 Samuel
Nevin dies.
1980 William Ritchie Russell dies.
1983 Dorothy Russell dies.
1987 Dr Graham Wakefield retires from
Royal United Hospital, Bath.
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