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Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard

1817 - 1894

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Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard FRS (8 April 1817 – 2 April 1894) was a Mauritian physiologist and neurologist who, in 1850, became the first to describe what is now called Brown-Séquard syndrome. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard has received more than 139,149 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard is the 420th most popular physician, the 3rd most popular biography from Mauritius and the most popular Mauritian Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard ranks 420 out of 502Before him are Fernando J. Corbató, William Gull, Jean-Nicolas Corvisart, Oskar Minkowski, Kiyoshi Shiga, and Hiraga Gennai. After him are Dorotea Bucca, David Cooper, Friedrich von Esmarch, Peter C. Doherty, Kurt Blome, and Francis Buchanan-Hamilton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard ranks 49Before him are Wilhelm Griesinger, Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély, Branwell Brontë, Joseph Poelaert, Adolphe Alphand, and Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher. After him are Braxton Bragg, Richard Dadd, Georgi Pulevski, Francesco de Sanctis, Édouard Deldevez, and Jozef Miloslav Hurban. Among people deceased in 1894, Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard ranks 51Before him are Pavel Yablochkov, Philipp Spitta, Charles Laval, Amelia Bloomer, Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher, and Rafael Núñez. After him are Franjo Rački, Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Maria Deraismes, Heinrich Karl Brugsch, Karl von Blaas, and Caterina Volpicelli.

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In Mauritius

Among people born in Mauritius, Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard ranks 3 out of 15Before him are Anerood Jugnauth (1930) and Henri Le Sidaner (1862). After him are Maurice Piat (1941), Seewoosagur Ramgoolam (1900), Ameenah Gurib (1959), Jean Margéot (1916), Prithvirajsing Roopun (1959), Monique Ohsan Bellepeau (1942), Navin Ramgoolam (1947), Veerasamy Ringadoo (1920), and Pravind Jugnauth (1961).

Among PHYSICIANS In Mauritius

Among physicians born in Mauritius, Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard ranks 1