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A manual of diseases of the nervous system. 2 vols.London: J. & A. Churchill, 1886 – 1888.Gowers was physician and Professor of Clinical Medicine at University College, London. He especially distinguished himself in the field of neurology, and the above set is his greatest work.Page 365 of vol. 1 includes the first description of local panatrophy. See also Rev. Neurol. Psychiat. (Edinb.), 1903, 1, 3-4. Gowers was also interested in stenography, advised his students to take down his lectures in shorthand, and founded the Society of Medical Phonographers. See No. 4751. Biography by Macdonald Critchley, London, 1949. Subjects: NEUROLOGY › Diseases of the Nervous System Permalink: www.historyofmedicine.com/id/437 |