Arthur Van Gehuchten

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Arthur Van (or van) Gehuchten (1861–1914 or 1915) was a Belgian anatomist, born at Antwerp. He was professor in the faculty of medicine at the University of Leuven until the eruption of the War in Europe in 1914. He moved to England and taught biology at Cambridge University until his death. Van Gehuchten is especially known for his contributions to the theory of neurons. In anatomy, the van Gehuchten method is the fixing of a histologic tissue in a mixture of glacial acetic acid 10 parts, chloroform 30 parts, and alcohol 60 parts. He wrote:

• L'Anatomie du système nerveux de l'homme (1893; fourth edition, 1906)
• Cours d'anatomie humain systématique (three volumes, 1906-09)
• Les centres nerveaux cérébro-spinaux (1908)
• La radicotomie postérieure dans les affections nerveuses spasmodiques (1911)