Background
Because his father died early, young Clarke was brought up by his mother in France. Having obtained the diploma of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries, he began practice at Pimlico, living with his mother.
Because his father died early, young Clarke was brought up by his mother in France. Having obtained the diploma of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries, he began practice at Pimlico, living with his mother.
On returning to England he chose the medical profession, to which his elder brother and grandfather belonged, and studied at Guy’s Hospital, and Street Thomas" Hospital.
He became devoted to microscopical research on the brain and nervous system, and applying a new method, and proceeding with extreme care and thoroughness, he established many new facts of structure which had important bearings on the physiology and pathology of the nervous system. His first paper, ‘Researches into the Structure of the Spinal Cord,’ was received by the Royal Society on 15 October 1850, and published in their ‘Transactions’ for 1851. lieutenant was illustrated, like many of his subsequent papers, by extremely accurate and valuable drawings by himself, and these have been subsequently reproduced in numerous works.
Few men have ever done so much original work while occupied with general medical practice, as his successive papers in the Royal Society’s ‘Transactions’ and ‘Proceedings.
The ‘Medico-Chirurgical’ transactions,’ the ‘Journal of the Microscopical Society."
Late in life he attended Saint George’s Hospital and qualified as a surgeon, still later obtained the Doctor of Medicine He became physician to the Hospital for Epilepsy and Paralysis, but gained no great amount of practice, probably owing to is retired habits, and his having published no book by which the public could judge of his work. He died on 25 January 1880 of pthisis.
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Saint Andrews (1869), and became a member of the London College of Physicians (1871), and entered upon consulting practice in nervous diseases.