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HOLMES, Sir Gordon Morgan (1876 – 1965)

HOLMES, Sir Gordon Morgan (1876 – 1965)

1876 – 1965

4 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1911

#1438.1

Sensory disturbances from cerebral lesions.

First systematic account of the functions of the thalamus and its relationship to the cerebral cortex. Reprinted in No. 1304.

1920

#1304

Studies in neurology. By Henry Head in conjunction with W.H.R. Rivers, James Sherren, Gordon Holmes, Theodore Thompson, George Riddoch. 2 vols.

Reprint, with modifications and additions, of seven papers published in the journal Brain between 1905 and 1918. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1925

#3872

A case of virilism associated with a suprarenal tumour: recovery after its removal.

Records the first removal (by P. Sargent) of an adrenal cortical tumor. This was followed by disappearance of the heterosexual symptoms, thus establishing the relationship of sexual abnormality and adrenal tumors.

1931 –1932

#10764

Selected writings of John Hughlings Jackson, edited by James Taylor, with the advice and assistance of Gordon Holmes and F. M. R. Walshe. 2 vols.