Russell Russell Brain

October 23, 1895 (age 71)

He was principal author of the standard work of neurology, Brain"s Diseases of the Nervous System, and longtime editor of the homonymous neurological medical journal titled Brain. He is also eponymised with "Brain"s reflex", a reflex exhibited by humans when assuming the quadrupedian position. On the introduction of conscription in 1916 his work enabled him to be exempted as a conscientious objector. After the war he returned to New College, and studied medicine, obtaining his Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery in 1922 and a Doctor of Medicine in 1925. He specialised in neurology. Apart from his clinical practice, he was a member on a large number of government committees pertaining to physical and mental health, and was involved in the care of Winston Churchill on the latter"s deathbed in 1965. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1931 and was President of the College from 1950 to 1956. He was knighted in 1952, made a baronet on 29 June 1954, and on 26 January 1962 was created, of Eynsham in the County of Oxford. In March, 1964 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. In 1964 he gave the presidential address (Science and Behaviour) to the British Association meeting in Southampton. In this address he discussed how humanity was approaching the anthropocene and he reiterated Alfred North Whitehead"s warning that ""A muddled state of mind is prevalent. The increased plasticity of the environment for mankind, resulting from the advances in scientific technology, is being construed in terms of habits of thought which find their justification in the theory of a fixed environment." Christopher succeeded him as the 2nd. In 1954 Janet married Doctor Leonard Arthur, tried for the murder of a baby in 1981 but acquitted.

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Brain was educated at Mill Hill School and New College, Oxford, where he began to read history, but disliked lieutenant

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He was principal author of the standard work of neurology, Brain"s Diseases of the Nervous System, and longtime editor of the homonymous neurological medical journal titled Brain. He is also eponymised with "Brain"s reflex", a reflex exhibited by humans when assuming the quadrupedian position. On the introduction of conscription in 1916 his work enabled him to be exempted as a conscientious objector.

After the war he returned to New College, and studied medicine, obtaining his Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery in 1922 and a Doctor of Medicine in 1925.

He specialised in neurology. Apart from his clinical practice, he was a member on a large number of government committees pertaining to physical and mental health, and was involved in the care of Winston Churchill on the latter"s deathbed in 1965.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1931 and was President of the College from 1950 to 1956. He was knighted in 1952, made a baronet on 29 June 1954, and on 26 January 1962 was created, of Eynsham in the County of Oxford.

In March, 1964 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society.

In 1964 he gave the presidential address (Science and Behaviour) to the British Association meeting in Southampton. In this address he discussed how humanity was approaching the anthropocene and he reiterated Alfred North Whitehead"s warning that ""A muddled state of mind is prevalent. The increased plasticity of the environment for mankind, resulting from the advances in scientific technology, is being construed in terms of habits of thought which find their justification in the theory of a fixed environment." Christopher succeeded him as the 2nd.

In 1954 Janet married Doctor Leonard Arthur, tried for the murder of a baby in 1981 but acquitted.

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