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‘The effects of total transverse lesion of the spinal cord in man’. By James Collier, MD, B.Sc, FRCP. Assistant Physician (late Pathologist) to the National Hospital. Brain 1904; 27: 38–63.
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James Collier was appointed to the consultant staff of the National Hospital, London, in 1902. There, he started the weekly clinical demonstrations that soon became famous amongst students of neurology visiting Queen Square from throughout the world. He used ‘every histrionic trick of display, eloquence, gesture and emphasis ... despite a weakness for exaggeration, (Collier) possessed an uncanny clinical flair and diagnostic brilliance’ ... ‘the elegant phrases, falling to a whisper as, with the mannerisms of a magician, he disclosed the climax to the clinical story fascinated audiences at his Wednesday afternoon clinic’.
Writing in 1904, James Collier sets out a view on the mechanism of clinical deficits observed in total transverse lesions of the human spinal cord. His account
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