Sir Samuel Wilks (1824–1911): On Epilepsy

Sir Samuel Wilks ( 1824 – 1911 ) : ‘ The Most Philosophical of English Physicians ’

This paper retells some of the achievements and personal attributes of Sir Samuel Wilks, one of the great Guy’s Hospital physicians and neurologists of the second half of the 19th century. He was a fellow of the Royal Society, president of the Royal College of Physicians, and physician extraordinary to Queen Victoria. A prolific author and original observer of clinical and pathological diseases...

Sir Samuel Wilks (1824-1911): 'the most philosophical of english physicians'.

This paper retells some of the achievements and personal attributes of Sir Samuel Wilks, one of the great Guy's Hospital physicians and neurologists of the second half of the 19th century. He was a fellow of the Royal Society, president of the Royal College of Physicians, and physician extraordinary to Queen Victoria. A prolific author and original observer of clinical and pathological diseases...

Samuel Wilks: the "grand old man" of British medicine.

88th USIM Meeting: Sir Samuel Irwin Lecture Theatre, Friday 19th October: Royal Victoria Hospital

88th USIM Meeting: Sir Samuel Irwin Lecture Theatre, Friday 19th October Royal Victoria Hospital

One hundred years of epilepsy surgery: Sir Victor Horsley's contribution.

"If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same" (Kipling, "If', 1910)' On May 25th, 1886, Victor Horsley, then aged 29 years, another brilliant recent recruit to the burgeoning National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic in Queen Square, performed his first brain operation on a patient.2 There was no tradition of neurological surgery, so there could...