Henry Charlton Bastian
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in 1875Henry Charlton Bastian (26 April 1837 in
neurologist
.
Biography
Bastian was born at
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1870.[1]
In 1867, Bastian was elected Professor of Pathology and Assistant Physician at UCL Medical School and successively became Professor of Clinical Medicine at UCL Medical School.[1] In 1868, he became assistant physician to the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic, then full physician in 1887. He served at the National Hospital until he retired in 1912.[1]
He was an advocate of the doctrine of
germ theory. He promoted a theory of "heterogenesis", a process by which existing living beings give birth to wholly different forms.[2][3] Bastian's criticism of the germ theory of disease has been linked to the theory's initially slow impact in the UK.[4]
Works
- Monograph of the Anguillulidae (1865)
- The Modes of Origin of Lowest Organisms (1871)
- The Beginnings of Life: Being Some Account of the Nature, Modes of Origin and Transformation of Lower Organisms, I–II (1872)
- Evolution and the Origin of Life (1874)
- The Brain as an Organ of Mind (1880)
- The "muscular sense" its nature and cortical localisation (1887) [5]
- A Treatise on Aphasia and Other Speech Defects (1898)
- Studies in Heterogenesis (1903)
- The Nature and Origin of Living Matter (1905)
- The Evolution of Life (1907)
- The Origin of Life (1911)
See also
- Bastian-Bruns sign
- Receptive aphasia
References
- ^ a b c d e Pearce, J. M. S. (2010). Henry Charlton Bastian (1837–1915): Neglected Neurologist and Scientist. European Neurology 63: 73-78.
- ^ "Reviews and Notices of Books". The Lancet. 2: 563. 1872.
- S2CID 44812522.
- ISBN 978-1-292-12737-8.
- .
Further reading
- Strick, James. (1999). Darwinism and the Origin of Life: The Role of H. C. Bastian in the British Spontaneous Generation Debates, 1868-1873. Journal of the History of Biology 32 (1): 51-92.
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