David Ferrier
1843–1928
Scottish neurologist. Studied psychology at Heidelberg. MB, Edinburgh, 1868. Lecturer on physiology, Middlesex Hospital school, 1870. Demonstrator, King’s College, London, 1871; professor of forensic medicine, 1872; assistant physician, 1874; professor of neuropathology, 1889; physician, 1890. Retired in 1908. Carried out pioneering research into brain function and made significant contributions to the field of brain surgery. One of the founding editors of Brain, 1878. Knighted, 1911.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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