DEATH OF FAMOUS DOCTOR
PIONEER OF BRAIN STJBQiERY .'' LONDON, March 20. i The death is announced of Sir jDpMtil $ Ferrier, the. famous neuropathologist and founder and pioneer of brain surgery.' v. . Bist David Ferrier was born in Abtirdeen. He was educated at the suniwrf city • <there and at [Edinburgh and, Heidelberg. Having taicen Ms "medical degree at Edinburgh, he began to practice as a specialist, and soon, wm a reputation as an authority on tiie brain. In 1889 he was appointed emeritus professor of neuropathology at King's College Hospital, and to .the" National Hospital for the- Paralysed and Epileptic. ' ' Ferrier, who was knighted in 1911,, wrote" The Functions of the Brain, % 1876, " Cerebral Localisation,'" IS,7S. JS99, etc." ' , - '
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16651, 22 May 1928, Page 3
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