BASTIAN, Henry Charlton (1837 – 1915)
1837 – 1915
5 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1863 CE
#5344.2
On the structure and nature of the Dracunculus or Guinea worm.
First detailed description.
1869 CE
#4622
On the various forms of loss of speech in cerebral disease.
Bastian’s first important paper on aphasia. His axiom “We think in words” explains his whole work on the subject. See also his later paper on pp. 470-92 of the same volume.
1886 CE
#4570
Paralyses, cerebral, bulbar and spinal.
Bastian was one of the founders of English neurology. He is remembered for “Bastian’s law” (see No. 4577).
1890 CE
#4577
On the symptomatology of total transverse lesions of the spinal cord, with special reference to the condition of the various reflexes.
“Bastian’s law”, transverse lesion of the cord above the lumbar enlargement results in the abolition of the tendon reflexes of the lower extremities.
1898 CE
#4629
A treatise on aphasia and other speech defects.
Bastian localized the auditory and visual centers, and he described word-blindness and word-deafness. (See also No. 4622.)