Brown-Sequard

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Biography:
Charles Edouard Brown - Sequard was born Charles Edouard Brown on 8 April 1817,at Port-Louis,Mauritius,the posthumous son of Edward Brown,of Irish descent and captain of a merchant vessel.
In 1838 he travelled with his Mauritius-born mother,originally of the provencal family of Sequard,to France.His mother died in 1842,and Brown added her maiden name to his own.In 1846,at the age of 29, he graduated MD from Paris with a thesis on the refex action of the spinal cord after separation from the brain.
He left Paris in 1854,intent on practicing medicine in his native Mauritius.However on arrival he found the island was in the midst of a cholera epidemic.whereupon he immediately took charge of the cholera hospital.Once the epidemic was subdued he was presented with a gold medal, struck in his honour by his contrymen.
Brown Sequard married three times.In 1853 his first wife was American and name Ellen(born Fletcher).In1872,he married his second wife another American named Maria Rebecca (born Carlisle) and in 1876 he married his third wife Elizabeth Emma.He suffered an attack of phlebitis in January 1894 ,and died in Paris on 1 April 1894.He was buried in Montparnasse cemetery.
In 1928,He was honoured and the govt.of this time unveiled his bust.
His daughter Charlotte Maria Brown-Sequard married his son in law ,Richard Bolton McCausland,and his grandson Charles E.McCausland.His great grandson is the Major Ian McCausland.
He was awarded in 1881,the honorary degree of LLD from the University of Cambridge.He received the Lacaze prize from the Academie des Sciences.and in 1885,the grand prix biennal.In 1886 the Royal College of Physicians presented him with the baly medal.He was elected President of the Socite de Biologie in 1887.In 1889 ,he was awarded the Order dof the Rose from the razillian Legation in Paris In 1889 Brown-Sequard became the sole editor of the Archives de Physiologie Normale et Pathologique.
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