William Henry Farrow

Dr. William Henry Farrow (20 June 1805? – 17 November 1876) was a physician born and trained in England. Practiced in Montreal and Toronto. Most notable for providing one of the first detailed descriptions of synesthesia, a condition then not yet defined.^[1] Farrow reported the details of the illness, (in this case temporary) in an article published in the Lower Canada Journal of Medicine.^[2]

Footnotes

1. ↑ New, Chester (1929). Lord Durham. Oxford University Press. pp. 374–376. 
2. ↑ "An Analysis of Confusion Occurring between the Senses". The Lower Canada Journal of Medicine (The Medical Society of Lower Canada) 12: 56–62. September 1838.