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CATON, Richard (1842 – 1926)

CATON, Richard (1842 – 1926)

1842 – 1926

2 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Unknown · Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine : historical record 1898-1920 · Public domain

1875 CE

#1408.1

The electric currents of the brain.

Caton succeeded in leading off action potentials from the brains of animals, a first step towards the development of the electroencephalograph. See also Brit. med. J., 1877, 1, Suppl. 62-75.

1893 CE

#3886

Notes on a case of acromegaly treated by operation.

First attempt (unsuccessful) to treat acromegaly operatively. Decompression was performed to relieve cranial pressure.