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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: English physiologists, Scottish physiologists, Thomas Young, J. B. S. Haldane, John James Rickard Macleod, Archibald Hill, Henry Head, Sammy Lee, William Benjamin Carpenter, Stephen Hales, Robert G. Edwards, Rodney Robert Porter, John Mayow, John Scott Haldane, David Ferrier, Charles Bell, Alan Smithers, Thomas Peter Anderson Stuart, Michael Berridge, William Alison, Thomas Wharton Jones, Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, Richard Keynes, Nancy Rothwell, Michael Foster, Marshall Hall, Alexander Crum Brown, Ernest Starling, Geoffrey S. Dawes, George Britton Halford, William Dobinson Halliburton, Arthur Robertson Cushny, William Mackenzie, James Keill, William Kilpatrick Stewart, Joseph Barcroft, Andrew Combe, John Yudkin, Thomas Lewis, Giles Brindley, Thomas Laycock, Janet Vaughan, Richard Adrian, 2nd Baron Adrian, Francis Marshall, W. A. H. Rushton, Jacob Augustus Lockhart Clarke, Francis Gotch, Francis Arthur Bainbridge, Agnes Ibbetson, Augustus Desire Waller, H. Newell Martin, John Rothwell, George Lindor Brown, William Sharpey, Alexander Walker, William Senhouse Kirkes, Hugh Davson, Andrew Murray, James Danielli. Excerpt: Sir Henry Head (August 4, 1861 - October 8, 1940) was an English neurologist who conducted pioneering work into the somatosensory system and sensory nerves. Much of this work was conducted on himself, in collaboration with the psychiatrist W. H. R. Rivers, by severing and reconnecting sensory nerves and mapping how sensation returned over time. Head-Holmes syndrome and Head-Riddoch syndrome are named after him. Henry Head was born on 4 August 1861 at number 6, Park Road, Stoke Newington (a district in the London Borough of Hackney), as the eldest son of Henry Head and his wife Hester Beck and one of eleven children. 'Harry', as he was called throughout his childhood, was of strong Quaker roots and H...
