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H. Richard Tyler, MD

Arch Neurol. 1998;55:1370-1371.

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INTRODUCTION

In 1865 Americans saw the end of the Civil War, and their president, Abraham Lincoln, was assassinated. Slavery was abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment. The Atlantic cable linking Europe and the United States was completed. Bismarck and Napoleon III had a meeting resulting in Prussian supremacy in Germany. Lister had shown that antiseptic surgery was feasible and great surgical advances were made possible. Maxwell published his treatise defining the laws that related electricity to magnetism. Mendel's laws of heredity were formulated, and Pasteur saved the silk industry by curing silkworm disease. Alice in Wonderland was written by Lewis Carroll; Twain, Whitman, Homer, Inness, Wagner, and Rimsky-Korsakov all added to our cultural heritage.

AREAS OF NEUROLOGIC FOCUS

The major issues relating to the nervous system at this time were the issues of localization of cerebral function and the challenge by those who felt nerve cells were separate entities vs the generally . . . [Full Text of this Article]

MAJOR NEUROLOGIC FIGURES

NEUROLOGY AS AN EMERGING SPECIALTY

From the Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass, and Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Mass.