first operation performed by Godlee on 25 November 1884. Godlee was a nephew of the eminent physician Sir Joseph Lister (1827–1912), the discoverer of surgical antisepsis. Practical results of animal research were used to justify Ferrier before a noisy public persecution carried out by antivivisectionist societies against him and other scientists, who were accused of inhumane use of animals for experimental medicine. In 1892, Ferrier was one of the founding members of the National Society for the Employment of Epileptics (now the National Society for Epilepsy), along with Sir William Gowers and John Hughlings Jackson. Death He died of pneumonia on 19 March 1928 in London. He left a widow, Constance (née Waterlow, sister of painter Ernest Albert Waterlow), and a son and daughter. His son Claude was a well-known architect. Works Of Ferrier's publications, two books are particularly notable. The first one, published in 1876, The Functions of the Brain, describes his experimental results and became very influential in the succeeding years, in such a way that today it is considered one of the classics of neuroscience. In 1886, he published a new edition, considerably expanded and reviewed. The second book, which was published two years later – The Localization of Brain Disease – had as its subject the clinical applications of cortical localization. Together with his friends Hughlings Jackson and Crichton-Browne, Ferrier was one of the founders of the journal Brain in 1878, which was dedicated to the interaction between experimental and clinical neurology and is still published today. In that year Ferrier delivered the Goulstonian Lecture to the Royal College of Physicians on "The localisation of cerebral diseases". Notes References Wozniak, RH: David Ferrier. The Functions of the Brain (1876). In: Classics in Psychology. Thoemmes. Young, R.M.: David Ferrier: Localization of Sensory Motor Psychophysiology. In: Mind, Brain and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century: Cerebral Localization and Its Biological Context from Gall to Ferrier Wozniak, R.H.: Hughlings Jackson: Evolution and Dissolution of the Nervous System (1881–7; Collected 1932). In: Classics in Psychology, 1855–1914: Historical Essays, Thoemmes. 100 Years of Brain. Macewen, Sir William (1848–1924), professor of surgery, University of Glasgow Biography at AIM25 External links Royal College of Physicians Ferrier's documents in the Queen Square Archive 1843 births 1928 deaths People from Aberdeen Alumni of the University of Edinburgh British neurologists Scottish physiologists 19th-century Scottish medical doctors 20th-century Scottish medical doctors Scottish scientists Scottish neuroscientists History of neuroscience