Robert Bentley Todd
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Robert Bentley Todd
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Born | 1809 |
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Died | 1860 |
Nationality | Irish |
Fields | medicine |
Known for | Todd's palsy |
Robert Bentley Todd (1809-1860) was an Irish physician who is best known for describing the condition postictal paralysis in his Lumleian Lectures in 1849 now known as Todd's palsy.
[edit] References
- McIntyre, Neil (Feb. 2008). "Robert Bentley Todd (1809-60)". Journal of medical biography 16 (1): 2. doi: . PMID 18463057.
- Reynolds, E H (Dec. 2005). "Vis attractiva and vis nervosa". J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatr. 76 (12): 1711-2. doi: . PMID 16291899.
- Todd, Robert Bentley (Jul. 2005). "The Lumleian Lectures for 1849. On the pathology and treatment of convulsive diseases". Epilepsia 46 (7): 995-1009. doi: . PMID 16026550.
- Reynolds, Edward H (Jul. 2005). "Robert Bentley Todd's electrical theory of epilepsy". Epilepsia 46 (7): 991-4. doi: . PMID 16026551.
- Reynolds, Edward H (Sep. 2004). "Todd, Faraday, and the electrical basis of brain activity". Lancet neurology 3 (9): 557-63. doi: . PMID 15324724.
- Reynolds, Edward H (Aug. 2004). "Todd, Faraday, and the electrical basis of epilepsy". Epilepsia 45 (8): 985-92. doi: . PMID 15270768.
- Binder, Devin K (Feb. 2004). "A history of Todd and his paralysis". Neurosurgery 54 (2): 480-6; discussion 486-7. PMID 14744294.
- Lyons, J B (Apr. 1998). "Some contributions of Robert Bentley Todd". Journal of the history of the neurosciences 7 (1): 11-26. PMID 11620236.
- Reynolds, E (Aug. 2001). "Todd, Hughlings Jackson, and the electrical basis of epilepsy". Lancet 358 (9281): 575-7. doi: . PMID 11520547.
- Pearce, J M (Mar. 1994). "Robert Bentley Todd (1809-60) and locomotor ataxia". J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatr. 57 (3): 359. PMID 8158187.
- Pearce, J M (Mar. 1994). "Robert Bentley Todd (1809-60) and Todd's paralysis". J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatr. 57 (3): 315. PMID 8158178.
- Helmstadter, C (. 1993). "Robert Bentley Todd, Saint John's House, and the origins of the modern trained nurse". Bulletin of the history of medicine 67 (2): 282-319. PMID 8329858.
- Goldblatt, D (Sep. 1986). "The great names of our profession. Robert Bentley Todd (1809-1860)". Seminars in neurology 6 (3): 332-5. PMID 3332438.
[edit] External links
- Todd's The Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology (1836 - 1852) as fullscan from the original