The legacy of Henry Head

Clark-Kennedy A.E. The London. A study in the voluntary hospital system. London: Pitman Medical 1963

Breuer J. ‘Self-steering’ of respiration through the nervus vagus [1868] translated by Elisabeth Ullmann. In: Porter R. , ed. Breathing. Ciba Foundation Symposium. London: Churchill, 1970: 365–94

Head H. On the regulation of respiration. J Physiol 1889; 10: 1–70, 279–90

Bernard C. Lecons sur les phenomenes de la vie communs aux animaux et aux vegetaux, 2 vol. Paris: Bailliere et fils, 1878–79

Ross J. Segmental distribution of sensory disorders. Brain 1889; 10: 351

Head H. On disturbances of sensation with special reference to the pain of visceral disease. Brain 1893; 16: 1–133; 17: 339–480; 1896; 19: 153–276

Head H. , Campbell A.W. The pathology of herpes zoster and its bearing on sensory localisation. Brain 1900; 23: 353–524

Foerster O. The dermatomes in man. Brain 1933; 56: 1–39

Head H. , Rivers W.H.R. A human experiment in nerve division. Brain 1908; 31: 323–450

Head H. , Holmes G.M. Sensory disturbances from cerebral lesions. Brain 1911; 34: 105–254

Henson R.A. On thalamic dysaesthesiae and their suppression by bilateral stimulation. Brain 1949; 72: 576

Head H. Sensation and the cerebral cortex. Brain 1918; 41: 716–26

Head H. , Riddoch G. The automatic bladder, excessive sweating and some other reflex conditions in gross injuries of the spinal cord. Brain 1917; 40: 188–263, 264–402

Freeman L.W. Treatment of paraplegia resulting from trauma to the spinal cord. JAMA 1949; 140: 949, 1015

Guttman L. , Whitteridge D. Effects of bladder distension on automatic mechanisms after spinal cord injury. Brain 1947; 70: 361

Scarff J.E. , Pool J.L. Factors causing massive spasm following transection of cord in man. J Neurosurg 1945; 3: 385

Head H. Aphasia: an historical review. Brain 1920; 43: 390

Head H. Aphasia and kindred disorders of speech, 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1926

Critchley E.M.R. Language and speech disorders. A neurophysiological approach. London: Clinical Neuroscience Publishers, 1987

Breathnach C.S. Validation of language localisation by computer assisted tomography and tomographic techniques: a review. Ir J Psychol Med 1989; 6: 11–18

Gazzaniga M.S. Organisation of the human brain. Science 1989; 245: 947–52

Holmes G.M. Obituary, Sir Henry Head. BMJ 1940; 2: 539–41