This item contains a signature of Charles-Edouard (or Charles Edward) Brown-Séquard (b.1817-d.1894) a Mauritian physiologist and neurologist. He identified cases with spinal cord hemisection, and described the clinical presentation corresponding to a syndrome which bears his name (Brown-Séquard syndrome), for which he is best known among neurologists. Search PubMed for biographical information: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Brown-S%C3%A9quard+C[PS] or search for historic scientific publications by (Author:Brown-Séquard) in IndexCat: https://indexcat.nlm.nih.gov/vivisimo/cgi-bin/query-meta?v%3Aproject=ind... -- Signature collected by David S. Light, M.D. as part of the Light collection of scientific letters. The collection was donated to the Rudolph Matas Library of the Health Sciences between 1993 and 2003. David S. Light, M.D. (alumnus, Tulane University School of Medicine, 1944)
