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James Braid

1795 - 1860

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James Braid (19 June 1795 – 25 March 1860) was a Scottish surgeon, natural philosopher, and "gentleman scientist". He was a significant innovator in the treatment of clubfoot, spinal curvature, knock-knees, bandy legs, and squint; a significant pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy, and an important and influential pioneer in the adoption of both hypnotic anaesthesia and chemical anaesthesia. He is regarded by some, such as Kroger (2008, p. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Braid has received more than 9,861 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). James Braid is the 342nd most popular physician (up from 412th in 2019), the 1,843rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,379th in 2019) and the 28th most popular British Physician.

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  • 9.9k

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  • 54.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, James Braid ranks 342 out of 726. Before him are Filippo Pacini, Victor Babeș, Mondino de Luzzi, Nikolai Korotkov, Paul Janssen, and Thomas Szasz. After him are Max Heindel, Luke Voyno-Yasenetsky, Anthony Fauci, Ibn Abi Usaibia, Shinya Yamanaka, and Louis de Jaucourt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1795, James Braid ranks 32. Before him are Maria Schicklgruber, Peter Andreas Hansen, Antoine-Louis Barye, Andrew Dũng-Lạc, Ghazi Muhammad, and Anton Schindler. After him are Policarpa Salavarrieta, Karl Eichwald, Charles Barry, Kondraty Ryleyev, Carl Anton von Meyer, and Karl Ludwig Sand. Among people deceased in 1860, James Braid ranks 27. Before him are Johann Georg Christian Lehmann, Ii Naosuke, Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, George, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, George William, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, and Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi. After him are Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, Aleksey Khomyakov, Ferdinand Christian Baur, Élie, duc Decazes, Duchess Marie of Württemberg, and Ludwig Rellstab.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Braid ranks 1,843 out of 8,785. Before him are Emma Darwin (1808), Peter Shaffer (1926), Tony Sheridan (1940), Jasper Tudor (1431), Ernest Jones (1879), and John Ball (1338). After him are Christine Keeler (1942), Rick Wakeman (1949), William Boyce (1711), George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon (1827), Louis Harold Gray (1905), and Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, James Braid ranks 28. Before him are Henry Gray (1827), Thomas Sydenham (1624), John Latham (1740), Lorna Wing (1928), William Cullen (1710), and Clarke Abel (1780). After him are Robert Darwin (1766), Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet (1816), William Bayliss (1860), Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836), William Gull (1816), and William Hunter (1718).

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