Edward Constant Séguin
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Edward Constant Séguin, MD (January 20, 1843 in Paris – February 19, 1898 in New York City)neurologist and a founder of the American Neurological Association in 1875. He was a practitioner and professor at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York.
Séguin was the son of
New York Hospital. He suffered from a lung ailment and left the hospital. He re-entered the Army for a tour of duty and was stationed in New Mexico
where he regained his health.
Séguin was in Paris from 1869 to 1870 to study
thermometry
. The following year, Séguin was named to the Chair of Diseases of the Nervous System at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and founded its neurological clinic. In 1876, he left the practice.
Séguin published many papers on neurological subjects and on
mental hospitals
.
In 1882, his wife suffered a
severe depression
, and shot and killed their three children and herself. Following this tragedy, Séguin returned to Europe where he worked in neurology. When he returned to the United States, he spent a year in Providence, Rhode Island, and regularly visited his patients in New York. In 1885, he resumed his practice in New York but resigned his teaching position. He retired from medical practice in 1896.
Séguin died in 1898 from
cirrhosis of the liver
.
Works
- Séguin, Edward C. Spinal Paralysis of the Adult. Appleton and Co. New York, 1874.
- Séguin, Edward C. Hysterical Symptoms in Organic Nervous Affections. New York: John F. Trow & Son, printers, 1875.
- Séguin, Edward C. A Clinical Contribution to the Study of Post-paralytic Chorea: A Contribution to the Study of Localized Cerebral Lesions. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1877.
- Séguin, Edward C. Higher Medical Education in New York: II. Reorganization of the Medical Staff of Hospitals. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1881.
- Séguin, Edward C. Higher Medical Education in New York: III. The System of Clinical Teaching in Colleges. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1881.
- Séguin, Edward C. The American Method of Giving Potassium Iodide in very Large Doses for the Later Lesions of Syphilis, more especially Syphilis of the Nervous System. New York: [s.n., 1884?]
- Séguin, Edward C. Opera Minora: A Collection of Essays, Articles, Lectures and Addresses from 1866 to 1882 Inclusive. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1884. https://archive.org/details/operaminoracolle00segu
- Séguin, Edward C. A Contribution to the Pathology of the Cerebellum. New York: J.H. Vail & Co., 1887.
- Séguin, Edward C. Lectures on Some Points in the Treatment and Management of the Neuroses. New York: Appleton, 1890. https://archive.org/details/lecturesonsomepo00segu
References
- PMC 2411013.
Further reading
- Garraty, John A., and Mark C. Carnes, eds. American National Biography. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1999.
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