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By Michael J. Aminoff. 211 pp., illustrated. New York, Raven Press, 1993. $68. ISBN 0-88167-956-9.

Aminoff has taken great care in crafting a portrait of Charles Edouard Brown-Sequard, a man of many quirks, tremendous intuitive insights, and impressive scientific accomplishments. Immortalized in the eponym that describes the clinical syndrome of spinal cord hemisection, Brown-Sequard made contributions to several fields. He laid the foundations for hormone-replacement treatments and demonstrated experimentally that the adrenal glands are essential for life. He should be considered among the founding fathers of endocrinology; however, many minimized his contributions, in part because of the association of his name with testicular extracts promoted by charlatans. Brown-Sequard's experiments and his interpretation of Claude Bernard's . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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