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The enactment of the Medical Act 1858 was followed by a new curriculum for medical students. This revived general science, ‘inspired by the belief that the dramatic results of science could be...

William began his apprenticeship in October 1861, three years after the belated enactment of the 1858 Medical Act. The new Act imposed some order on the previously chaotic structure of the medical...

Russell Reynolds must have influenced Gowers’ decision to specialize in neurology. By 1868 he had already invited his conscientious and able student to contribute to his multi-authored text, A System...

William Richard Gowers was born in 1845, eight years after Queen Victoria came to the throne. His achievements as a neurologist were formally recognized by the Queen when he received a knighthood in...

Zoonotic diseases are now recognized as a major global threat to human health and sustainable development and a major concern for national and international agencies (Marano et al. 2006). There was a...

Gowers himself wrote that the 20 years from 1870–90 were devoted almost entirely to his work. He made few new friends although, as described later, he was always a most dedicated and thoughtful...

For the first ten years of his life, Gowers was a member of a small, close-knit, working-class family. From the age of 6, when his sister Letitia died, he must have been particularly treasured as the...

Gowers made shorthand notes on all his cases, and maintained a systematic filing system. He was not the first doctor to use shorthand—Gowers himself pointed out that in the early nineteenth century a...

The close attention Gowers gave to his patients, and the meticulous records he kept of each case, provided the raw material he drew on to develop the hypotheses in his research papers. His lectures...

In 1893 the Queen Square board conferred on Gowers the title of ‘extra physician’. In an undated letter to Burford Rawlings, Gowers had written to say that he was ‘vexed’ not to be able to get to the...