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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 41 : search for health.—journey to Europe .—continued disability.—1857 -1858 . (search)
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 14 (search)
Chapter 42: Europe again.—heroic remedies.—health restored.
1858-1859.
Sumner arrived at Havre June 1; and after a night at Rouen, an old city which always fascinated him, he went on to Paris.
Two days after, an American merchant, Mr. Henry Woods of Boston, then engaged in business in that city, directed his attention to Dr. Brown-Sequard
Charles Edward Brown-Sequard (1818–), born in Mauritius of mixed American and French parentage; educated in Mauritius and in Paris, his specialty being experimental physiology; restless by nature, anti living at times in France, the United States, and England; a bold experimenter on animals and human beings; adventurous in practice as in theory; and attempting in late years to rejuvenate the human system. as a person who, though not in the regular practice of medicine or surgery, had devoted himself to the study of nervous diseases, particularly as connected with the spine, and was well known for his experiments in physiology and his lectures<