biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1790–1857)
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| biography:
| Physician and physiologist, born in Basford, Nottinghamshire, C England, UK. After studying at Edinburgh, Paris, Göttingen, and Berlin, he settled at Nottingham in 1817, and practised in London from 1826 until 1853. He did important work on reflex action of the spinal system (1833–7); this was rejected by the Royal Society in Britain but accepted in other European countries, where later work verified his ideas. He wrote on diagnosis (1817), the circulation (1831), Respiration and Irritability (1832), and other subjects. |
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