John Farquhar Fulton

thumb|John Farquhar Fulton John Farquhar Fulton (November 1, 1899 – May 29, 1960) was an American physician, neurophysiologist, expert in aviation medicine, and historian of science. Among his many honors, he was elected in 1934 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in 1949 to the American Philosophical Society, and in 1953 to the Royal College of Physicians. He was awarded in 1958 the George Sarton Medal. Quotes I was mystified one morning in an outpatient department by the numerous and vague complaints of an Italian boy—who, incidentally, neglected to mention his chief trouble—and in order to temporize he was told to return with a "24-hour specimen". The next morning he arrived in a Ford car with sundry members of his family and six jugs containing 20 litres of pale, clear urine! I need scarcely remark that this was my first experience with diabetes insipidus. July 14, 1932 New horizons in physiology and medicine: the hypothalamus and visceral mechanisms New England Journal of Medicine 207 2 60-68 https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJM193207142070204 10.1056/NEJM193207142070204 (quote from p.60) Born of pioneering stock, with three generations of physicians behind him, it is not surprising that Harvey Cushing should turn the full force of his tremendous energies to charting a little known field — the human brain. After attending Yale College and Harvard Medical School, he went to the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Johns Hopkins where, under the influence of William Stewart Halsted Halsted, Osler and William H. Welch Welch, he made himself eminent as a surgeon and as a leader in the reform of Medical education in the United States American medical education.Cushing was one of the earliest in the United States to use X-rays; the first to take Blood pressure measurement blood-pressure readings routinely during surgical operations and in general practice. The use of the Cauterization#Electrocautery electric cautery in brain operations was first developed by him. Preface Harvey Cushing: A Biography Yale Medical Library. Historical Library. Publication. no. 13. Charles C. Thomas 1946 ( 754 pages; text at archive.org) I have chosen to place Johann Ludwig Choulant Ludwig Choulant ... and William Osler ... side by side ...Both men were incredibly industrious., Osler's output running to 1,195 books and papers, as indicated in Maude Abbott's bibliography, ... while Choulant published sixty separate books (see Appendix IV); his journal contributions have never been counted or collected. The Great Medical Bibliographers: A Study in Humanism A Publication of the A.S.W. Rosenbach fellowship in bibliography; The Historical Library, Yale University School of Medicine. Publication no. 26 University of Pennsylvania Press 1951 75–76 (107 pages; 1st part of quote; last part of quote) Quotes about John Farquhar Fulton John F. Fulton was one of the leading figures internationally in neurophysiology and history of medicine between the early 1930s and 1960. Working at the laboratory of physiology at Yale University, he was a pioneer in the study of the functional localisation of the cerebral cortex in primates. His 1938 treatise Physiology of the nervous system was a milestone in the development of neurophysiology. Fulton created a working environment at the laboratory where training was provided to important scientists who later directed centres in their home countries. He stood out as speaker, editor, communicator, and member of several committees, and established many links with foreign figures, including the Spanish physicians José Manuel Rodríguez Delgado, Jaume Pi-Sunyer, Rafael Lorente de Nó, Josep Trueta, and Francisco Guerra. Fulton was a student of Charles Sherrington and Harvey Cushing and showed a special interest for the world of Santiago Ramón y Cajal. A great bibliophile, he dedicated the last years of his short but intense life to the history of medicine, publishing studies on Michael Servetus. M. Marco Igual, Original Neurosciences and History 2019 7 2 62-76 John F. Fulton (1899-1960): neurophysiologist, bibliophile, and historian. His relationship with Spain https://nah.sen.es/vmfiles/vol7/NAHV7N2201962_76EN.pdf External links John Farquhar Fulton Royal College of Physicians https://history.rcp.ac.uk/inspiring-physicians/john-farquhar-fulton Arthur Earl Walker A. Earl Walker, Journal of Neurophysiology 23 4 347–349 Obituary. John Farquhar Fulton, 1899–1960 1 July 1960 10.1152/jn.1960.23.4.346 https://journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/jn.1960.23.4.346 Category:1899 births Category:1960 deaths Category:Biographers from the United States Category:Harvard University alumni Category:Historians of science Category:Members of the American Philosophical Society Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States Category:People from Saint Paul Category:Physicians from Minnesota Category:Scientists from the United States Category:University of Oxford alumni Category:Yale University faculty