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Some syndromes of James Ramsay Hunt

Consultant Neurologist, Emeritus Department of Neurology, Hull Royal Infirmary, Hull, UK

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Dr J M S Pearce
304 Beverley Road, Anlaby, East Yorkshire HU10 7BG, UK; jmsp@freenet.co.uk

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James Ramsay Hunt (1872–1937) James Ramsay Hunt qualified MD at the University of Pennsylvania in 1893. He was appointed Instructor at Cornell University School of Medicine from 1900–10 and worked with C L Dana, mainly on the anatomy and clinical features of the corpus striatum and cerebellum. In 1924, he became a full professor at Columbia University School of Medicine. In the First World War he rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Army Medical Corps, serving in France as director of neuropsychiatry. He was on the faculty of the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University in 1911–13 and again from 1924 until his death. He was Consulting Neurologist and Senior Attending Neurologist at the Neurological Institute of New York from c.1914 to 1937. Despite his high ranking in Neurology, few biographical details have been recorded about his life.1 His 29 casebooks are housed in the . . . [Full text of this article]

 

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