John Hughlings Jackson Professions : Neurologist Born : April 4, 1835 Died : October 7, 1911 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by John Hughlings Jackson It takes 50 years to get a wrong idea out of medicine, and 100 years a right one into medicine. John Hughlings Jackson medicine years ideas The doctrine of evolution implies the passage from the most organised to the least organised, or, in other terms, from the most general to the most special. Roughly, we say that there is a gradual 'adding on' of the more and more special, a continual adding on of new organisations. But this 'adding on' is at the same time a 'keeping down'. The higher nervous arrangements evolved out of the lower keep down those lower, just as a government evolved out of a nation controls as well as directs that nation. John Hughlings Jackson government special science For in disease the most voluntary or most special movements, faculties, etc., suffer first and most, that is in an order the exact opposite of evolution. Therefore I call this the principle of Dissolution. John Hughlings Jackson opposites order science It has been said that he who was the first to abuse his fellow-man instead of knocking out his brains without a word, laid thereby the basis of civilisation. John Hughlings Jackson abuse brain men Similar Authors Ernest Jones neurologist Oliver Sacks neurologist Kari Stefansson neurologist Steven Novella neurologist Sigmund Freud neurologist All Authors
