Career
In July 1875 Caton reported to the British Medical Association in Edinburgh (Caton 1875) that he had used a galvanometer to observe electrical impulses from the surfaces of living brains in animal subjects.(Smith 1970)(Finger 1994) After Caton died, Hans Berger was one of few to recognize his importance and cited him in his 1929 report on the discovery of Alpha waves. He wrote:
He founded and was subsequently the inaugural president of the Liverpool Medical Students Society.