William Gowers (neurologist)

Sir William Gowers
FRS
Born
William Richard Gowers

(1845-03-20)20 March 1845
Died4 May 1915(1915-05-04) (aged 70)
Alma materUniversity of London
ChildrenErnest Gowers
Scientific career
FieldsNeurology

Sir William Richard Gowers FRS (/ˈɡaʊ.ərz/; 20 March 1845 – 4 May 1915) was a British neurologist, described by Macdonald Critchley in 1949 as "probably the greatest clinical neurologist of all time".[1] He practised at the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptics, Queen Square, London (now the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery) from 1870–1910, ran a consultancy from his home in Queen Anne Street, W1, and lectured at University College Hospital. He published extensively, but is probably best remembered for his two-volume Manual of Diseases of the Nervous System (1886, 1888), affectionately referred to at Queen Square as the Bible of Neurology.[2]

  1. ^ Critchley, Macdonald (1949) Sir William Gowers 1845–1915, William Heinemann Medical Books, London.
  2. ^ 'William Richard Gowers', in Queen Square and the National Hospital 1860–1960, (London: Edward Arnold, 1960), pp.76–7.