William Barnett Warrington (1869–1919)

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By the end of the nineteenth century, neurology in the United Kingdom had evolved as a discipline to the point where a very small number of physicians devoted all their time to neurological problems, and at least one hospital, the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic in Queen Square, London, was dedicated for the care of neurological patients. However, outside the metropolis, neurology remained largely a component of general medicine, with certain practitioners taking an interest in neurological disorders as one part of their more general work as physicians. One such clinician, who made some pertinent neurological observations in the early years of the twentieth century, was William Barnett Warrington. …