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3 unusual facts about The American Journal of the Medical Sciences


Brown-Séquard syndrome

French physician, Paul Loye, attempted to confirm Brown-Séquard's observations on the nervous system by experimentation with decapitation of dogs and other animals and recording the extent of each animal's movement after decapitation: Death by Decapitation journal The American Journal of the Medical Sciences in the year 1889, Volume 97, Issue 4, Page 387.

The American Journal of the Medical Sciences

A new series was started in 1825 under the editorship of Chapman along with William Potts Dewees and John D. Godman.

(The first article on Gage, by Dr. John Martyn Harlow himself, had appeared in 1848 in the Boston Medical & Surgical Journal, at the time arguably a less visible publication—though it is now the New England Journal of Medicine.)



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