Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard

Louis-Cyril Celestin was born in Mauritius so was Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard. He attended medical courses at the Faculty of medicine of Paris, and ward rounds and tutorials in Paris Hospitals. Subsequently he became an interpreter and translator in medical and medico-legal subjects. Since retirement he has devoted time to the history of Medicine of which this biography is the first work.

• Physiology in the Nineteenth Century.- The Birthplace.- The Forebears.- The Formative Years: 1817-1837.- The Medical Student: 1838-1846.- The Lone Experimenter: 1846-1851.- The Visitor to America: 1852-1853.- The Cholera Physician: 1854.- The Richmond Professor: 1854-1855.- The Paris Practitioner: 1856-1857.- The Itinerant Lecturer: 1856-1859.- The London Consultant Neurologist: 1860-1864.- The Harvard Professor: 1864-1867.- The Paris Course Lecturer: 1869-1872.- The New York Practitioner: 1872-1874.- The Indigent Physician: 1874-1877.- The College de France Professor: 1878-1894.- The Father of Hormonal Therapy: 1889-1893.- The Last Years: 1892-1894.

From the reviews: "Charles-Edouard Brown-Sequard is one of the most intriguing men to have ever lived. ... anyone with an interest in the history of medicine, or neurology and endocrinology in particular, will find this a captivating synoptic view of an exciting and formative epoch in the evolution of medical science. Celestin has neatly partitioned Brown-Sequard's chaotic lifeline into aptly titled chapters and this, more than anything else, helps make some sense of where Brown-Sequard was headed." (Sushil Dawka, Internet Journal of Medical Update, Vol. 9 (2), July, 2014)