Edward Meryon (1807–1880): His Life and Huguenot Background

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Practical and Pathological Researches on the Various Forms of Paralysis. London: John Churchill, 1864: 215 pp.

On granular degeneration of the voluntary muscles. Report of Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society meeting, 27 February 1866. Lancet 1866;i: 258–60.

An account of some cases of arrest of development. Transactions of the Ethnological Society 1868;7: 162–1.

Case of granular degeneration of the voluntary muscles. Lancet 1870;ii:32–3.

On the functions of the sympathetic system of nerves. Report of Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society meeting, 14 June 1870. BMJ 1870;ii: 99.

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