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Thomas Buzzard (1831–1919) never attended medical school but was one of the last doctors to enter medicine through apprenticeship to a general practitioner. Appointed to the staff of the National Hospital for the Paralyzed and Epileptic in 1867, at the suggestion of Hughlings Jackson, Buzzard was one of that small group of physicians who helped ‘Queen Square’ acquire its international reputation (Fig. 1). He doubled-up as a medical journalist; dealt with the Soho (London) outbreak of cholera in 1854; and served with the Turkish army in the Crimean War. He resigned his hospital appointment in 1906. Sir Gordon Holmes did not consider that Thomas Buzzard contributed much to the advance of neurology but acknowledged that he was a sound and practical physician who taught well. Buzzard wrote on The simulation of hysteria by organic disease (1891), delivered the Harveian Lectures for 1885 on Some forms of paralysis from