The Changing Pattern of Neurologic Medicine

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Abstract
GEORGE CHEYNE SHATTUCK (1784–1854), for whom this lecture was named, adorns that period of medicine that boasts Richard Bright, Thomas Addison, Thomas Hodgkin and Robert Graves. His special attributes were his clinical wisdom, his benevolence and his vision. It was chiefly through him that medicine in New England was set on a firm basis of clinicopathological correlation. The period is notable for the development of the art of clinical observation. In contrast, the first fifty years of the present century will probably be recognized in medical history by the enormous development of methods of measuring pathologic deviations in the living. . . .
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