Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard

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Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard 1817-1894 Born April 8,1817 - Port Louis, Mauritius American father, French mother, born British Edward Brown sea captain, lost at sea before Édouard’s birth Charlotte Séquard, born Port Louis (French) Grew up poor, poorly educated 1838 1st Paris visit with his mother Wanted to be a poet!-burned his manuscripts but enrolled at Faculty Medicine of Paris Changes name to Édouard Brown-Séquard 1846 Graduated/Thesis: Researches and Experiments on the Physiology of Spinal Cord 1850 – Demonstrated crossed sensory paths when cut cord in animals - Brown-Séquard Syndrome! Mother died 1848, very poor; just did research and saw patients Depressed/psychosomatic symptoms

Éduoard Brown-Séquard To America 1852 –Moved to American and learned English Saw patients, delivered babies, co-wrote obstetrics book Letters of introduction by Broca and others Lectured and experimental demonstrations in NY, Boston, Philadelphia 1853 – Married Ellen Fletcher (American), returned to Paris/Mauritius 1854 - Professor of Physiology at New Medical College of Virginia in Richmond Bored and disillusioned 1855 – Returned to Paris, visited London/Cambridge 1856 – Son born, to USA to see family and lecture – Boston, NY, Baltimore, Charleston, returned NY to lecture 1857 1858 – London lectures, Royal Society 1859 – Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Dublin 1860 – Queen Square, National Hospital for Nervous Diseases – Brown-Séquard one of 2 founding physicians Friends with Darwin, Huxley, Jackson 1860 – Published: Course Lectures on the Physiology and Pathology of the Central Nervous System

Éduoard Brown-Séquard 1864 _ Harvard – Professor Physiology and Pathology of the Nervous System; wife dies Resigns 3 times, meets Weir Mitchell 1867 – Returned to Paris – with Charcot 1871 – to NY due to Franco-Prussian War Remarried – woman 30 yrs younger – Maria 1873 – Boston, lectured with Agassiz, OW Holmes, Putnam in audience Clinical practice in NYC with Edward Sequin (Columbia) started Archives of Scientific and Practical Medicine 1874 – 2nd wife dies, post partum 1876 – returned to Paris 1877 – 3rd marriage; lectured Cambridge, NYC 1878 – Claude Bernard dies and Edward Brown-Séquard assumes Professor and Chair of Medicine College de France (Magendie old chair) and his lab Close to L. Pasteur, Gustave Eiffel 1894 – 3rd wife dies, Emma Edward Brown-Séquard dies several months later, age 77 577 publications First in 1846 – Doctoral Thesis; 6 in 1894

Éduoard Brown-Séquard & Endocrinology 1855 – Addison reported disease of the adrenal glands caused anemia, weakness, bronzing of skin and other changes 1856 – Brown-Séquard reported excision of both adrenal glands in cats, dogs, guinea pigs, rabbits and mice led to death within 24 hours Many initially disputed Addison and Brown-Séquard Their experiments and observations initiated modern endocrinology Age 72 - Brown-Séquard noticed decline of strength, concentration, fatigue, increase of insomnia, worsening constipation created solution of testicular blood, seminal fluid and testicular extract from healthy dogs and guinea pigs and injected in himself 10 X over 3 weeks. Reported his observation to Société de Biologie Noticed increased mental concentration, physical endurance, stream of urine, bowel habits and increased power in his forearm by 5-6 kgs Very controversial but many including W Hammond confirmed findings Brown-Séquard used adrenal extracts for Addison’s Disease and others used thyroid extracts for myxedema Generally no benefit until fat solvents used in 1930, but Brown-Séquard started the field of hormone replacement