Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard was one of the most respected physicians of his time. He held professional posts in the United States, England and France and was elected to prestigious scientific ...

We describe clinical and radiographic review of three patients who presented with BSS caused by cervical disc herniation. Three patients presented with ipsilateral motor weakness and diminished ...

A healthy 36-year-old man presented to the emergency department with a painless and progressive left footdrop, numbness in the right leg and urinary hesitancy for 10 days. Physical examination showed ...

Brown-Sequard syndrome is a rare neurological condition in which a lesion in the spinal cord causes weakness or paralysis on one side of the body and a loss of sensation on the opposite side. The ...

In 1889, at a meeting of the Société de Biologie of Paris, a physiologist named Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard described the results of an experiment he had recently performed on himself. He had ...

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At age 72, French-American Doctor Charles-Eduard Brown-Sequard could feel his energy flagging. He didn't feel as mentally sharp as he used to and just couldn't get a good night's sleep anymore. And so ...

In 1889, Dr. Charles-Edouard Brown Sequard, a neurologist in Paris, injected himself with a juice concocted from the testicles of guinea pigs and dogs. He said he never felt better. His urine jet ...