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.

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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. DOI: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 where, under the influence of Halsted, Osler and Welch, he made himself eminent as a surgeon and as a leader in the reform of American medical education.
Cushing was one of the earliest in the United States to use X-rays; the first to take blood-pressure readings routinely during surgical operations and in general practice. The use of the 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 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. pp. 75–76. (107 pages; 1st part of quote; last part of quote)

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, (2019) . "John F. Fulton (1899-1960): neurophysiologist, bibliophile, and historian. His relationship with Spain". Original Neurosciences and History 7 (2): 62-76.

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