CHARLES EDOUARD BROWN-SEQUARD. 591 



dus, and during the epidemic of cholera which shortly followed he 

 was put in charge of the hospital. In 1855 he was made Professor of 

 Physiology at the University of Virginia, in Richmond, but his life 

 there was not congenial. An ardent republican, and with the scenes 

 of the cuup d'etat of 1852, in which he had himself borne arms, still 

 fresh in his mind, the contact with Negro slavery impressed him very 

 unpleasantly, and iu 1856 he returned to Paris and established a 

 laboratory with his friend Robin. His researches, and especially 

 those relating to the spinal cord and to epilepsy, had by this time 

 made him famous, and he was welcomed as a lecturer in the Univer- 

 sities of England, Scotland and Ireland, which he visited in the course 

 of the next year. In 1858 he began the publication of his "Journal 

 de la Physiologic de FHomme et des Animaux." He next went to 

 London, where he was made Physician to the National Hospital for 

 Epileptics and Paralytics, and became busy with a large consulting 

 practice ; but in 1863 he again broke loose, and came to establish him- 

 self in Boston, the home of his first wife, whom he had married on 

 his earlier visit. In 1864 he was made Professor of Physiology and 

 Pathology of the Nervous System in the Harvard Medical School. 

 The loss of his wife, in 1867, determined him to change his plans and 

 return to Europe. In 1868 he founded the " Archives de Physiologie," 

 in company with Charcot and Vulpian, By 1872 he had however 

 again crossed the sea, intending to establish himself in New York, 

 which was the home of the lady who became his second wife, and he 

 at once began together with Dr. E. C. Seguin to edit the "Archives 

 of Scientific and Practical Medicine," which had a brief but creditable 

 existence. The early death of his second wife again broke up his 

 home, and he returned to Europe once more. Within a few years he 

 married for the third time, and had agreed to accept a professorship 

 at Geneva, when the death of Claude Bernard, in 1873, brought him 

 a call to the Chair of Experimental Medicine at the Ecole de Medecine 

 (1878), and this position he held for the remaining sixteen years of 

 his life. His wife, to whom he had been deeply attached, died in 

 1894, and he survived her only a few months. He worked to the 

 last, and had taken an active share in the preparation of the issue of 

 his journal, the " Archives de Physiologie," which appeared shortly 

 after his death. 



Brown-Sequard was the only person whose name appears succes- 

 sively in the three divisions of the American Academy. He was 

 elected a Fellow May 28, 1867, an Associate Fellow May 27, 1873, 

 and a Foreign Honorary Member February 9, 1881. 



