| RefNo | EC/1887/08 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XI, 123 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Gowers, Sir William Richard: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Citation | Fellow of University College, London. Physician to University College Hospital, and to the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic. Distinguished as a Physiologist and Physician. Attached to Science and anxious to promote its progress. Contributor of papers on: - 'The Automatic Action of the Sphincter Ani' (Proc Roy Soc, 1877); 'The Decupation of the Optic Nerves' (Centralb fur d Med Wiss, 1878); 'The Enumeration of Blood Corpuscles' (Practitioner, 1878); 'The Estimation of Haemo-globin' (Trans Clin Soc, 1878); 'The Nature of the So-called Tendon-reflex Phenomena' (Trans Roy Med Chir Soc, vol lxii); 'The Mechanism of the Movements of the Eyelids' (ibid); 'A Reflex Mechanism in the Fixation of the Eyeballs' (Brain, vol ii); 'The Relation of the Fifth Nerve to Taste' (Journ of Phys, 1883); 'The Origin of the Sixth Nerve' (Centralb fur d Med Wiss, 1878); 'Unilateral Lesion of the Spinal Cord' (Trans Clin Soc, vol xi). Author of Treatise: - 'Manual and Atlas of Medical Ophthalmoscopy,' 2nd edition; 'Epilepsy and other Chronic Convulsive Diseases;' 'Diagnosis of Diseases of the Spinal Cord,' 2nd edition; 'Diagnosis of Diseases of the Brain;' 'Pseudo-hypertrophic Muscular Paralysis;' 'Disease of the Walls of the Heart;' 'Leucocythaemia;' 'Hodgkin's Disease;' 'Reynold's System of Medicine;' 'Path Anat of Hydrophobia;' 'Mode of Development of Spindle Cells,' &c, &c |
| Proposers | From General Knowledge: W Marcet
From Personal Knowledge: William Jenner; James Paget; William W Gull; John Marshall; Andw Clark; J Russell Reynolds; W Bowman; John Eric Erichsen; Joseph Lister; Samuel Wilks; Wilson Fox; Walter H Gaskell; Arthur Gamgee; John Beddoe; G J Romanes; John Wood |
| Extent | 1 sheet |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7132 | Gowers; Sir; William Richard (1845 - 1915) | 1845 - 1915 |