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CAMPBELL, Alfred Walter (1868 – 1937)

CAMPBELL, Alfred Walter (1868 – 1937)

1868 – 1937

3 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source anonymous/unknown · retrieved from: Parker LR. Obituary. Alfred Walter Campbell. M. J. Australia 1938 Nr. 1, S. 182 · Public domain

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1900 CE

#4644

The pathology of herpes zoster and its bearing on sensory localisation.

HEAD, Sir Henry (1861 – 1940)
HEAD, Sir Henry (1861 – 1940)
CAMPBELL, Alfred Walter (1868 – 1937)
CAMPBELL, Alfred Walter (1868 – 1937)

Head and Campbell showed herpes zoster to be a hemorrhagic inflammation of the posterior nerve roots and the homologous spinal ganglia.

1905 CE

#1430

Histological studies on the localisation of cerebral function.

CAMPBELL, Alfred Walter (1868 – 1937)
CAMPBELL, Alfred Walter (1868 – 1937)

The precentral area of the cerebral cortex is known as “Campbell’s area”. Campbell and Brodmann were pioneers in the study of the architectonics of the cerebral cortex, or cerebral cytoarchitecture. …

1917 CE

#4648

The Australian epidemics of an acute polio-encephalomyelitis (X disease).

CAMPBELL, Alfred Walter (1868 – 1937)
CAMPBELL, Alfred Walter (1868 – 1937)
CLELAND, Sir John Burton (1878 – 1971)
CLELAND, Sir John Burton (1878 – 1971)

Campbell was Australia's first neurologist. This paper described Murray Valley encephalitis (Australian X disease). Cleland and Campbell isolated a virus from the cerebral tissue of three patients.