Henry Head: Man of Culture,Compassion and Science

Cross KW . Head's paradoxical reflex. Brain 1961;84: 529–34.

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Henson RA . Henry Head's work on sensation. Brain 1961; 84: 535–50.

Barker P . Regeneration. London: Viking, 1991.

The first Lord Adrian, professor of physiology at the University of Cambridge, master of Trinity College. Letter dated 17 July 1951.

Critchley M . Head's contribution to aphasia. Brain 1961;84: 551–60.

Head H . Destroyers and Other Verses. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1919.

Trombley S . All That Summer She Was Mad — Virginia Woolf and Her Doctors. London: Junction Books, 1981.

Holmes G . Memoirs of the Royal Society 1941: 665–89.

Head's papers contain documents referring to healings at Holywell in Wales. More importantly, he made observations on pilgrims to Lourdes and the cures which were claimed. This project was assisted by the French ecclesiastical and medical authorities, but the work never reached publication. It appears from the papers that Cardinal Manning was one of his sponsors in this project.

Brain R . Henry Head: The man and his ideas. Brain 1961;84: 561–9.

Bashford Henry Sir (1880–1961), chief medical officer to the General Post Office, and first medical adviser to the Treasury. Letter to Lord Brain, 10 August 1961.

Clark-Kennedy AE . The London. London: Pitman Medical, 1963.

Letter to Lord Brain, 6 July 1961.

Fulton JF . Harvey Cushing. Springfield, Illinois: CC Thomas, 1946.

Ruth Mayhew was the eldest daughter of Anthony Lawson Mayhew, chaplain of Wadham College, Oxford, and his Scottish wife. Born in 1866, she and her sisters appeared in the diary of Francis Kilvert and the letters of Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), whose wish to photograph them was a source of some unease.

Graves R. Goodbye to All That. An Autobiography. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1930: 369–70.