Edward Constant Séguin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetEdward Constant Séguin
French-American neurologist
Date of Birth: 20-Jan-1843
Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
Date of Death: 19-Feb-1898
Profession: neurologist
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Edward Constant Séguin
- Edward Constant Séguin, MD (January 20, 1843 in Paris – February 19, 1898 in New York City) was an American neurologist and a founder of the American Neurological Association in 1875.
- He was a practitioner and professor at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. Séguin was the son of Édouard Séguin, a pioneer in the education of mentally retarded children.
- Edward C.
- was born in Paris, France, and in 1850, due to political unrest in France, the family emigrated to the United States and settled in Cleveland, Ohio.
- Edward received his early education in Cleveland and Portmouth.
- In 1861, the family moved to New York and he began medical studies at the College of Physicians and Surgeons.
- When the American Civil War began, Edward C.
- served as a dresser and medical cadet, resuming his studies at war's end.
- He received his medical degree in 1864 and he remained in the U.S.
- Army.
- From 1865 to 1867, he served as an intern at the New York Hospital.
- He suffered from a lung ailment and left the hospital.
- He re-entered the Army for a tour of duty and was stationed in New Mexico where he regained his health. Séguin was in Paris from 1869 to 1870 to study diseases of the nervous system.
- He studied under Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard and Jean-Martin Charcot.
- Upon his return to New York in 1870, he joined the practice of William Draper, a prominent physician to whom he introduced the practice of thermometry.
- The following year, Séguin was named to the Chair of Diseases of the Nervous System at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and founded its neurological clinic.
- In 1876, he left the practice. Séguin published many papers on neurological subjects and on neurosis.
- A large collection of his lectures was published under the title of Opera Minora.
- In 1873, he helped Brown-Séquard edit the journal, Archives of Scientific and Practical Medicine, which lasted only a short time.
- In 1879, he helped to found the journal Archives of Medicine.
- He was active within the short-lived Association for the Protection of the Insane, an organization of neurologists and medical professionals with the goal of improving patient care in mental hospitals. In 1882, his wife suffered a severe depression, and shot and killed their three children and herself.
- Following this tragedy, Séguin returned to Europe where he worked in neurology.
- When he returned to the United States, he spent a year in Providence, Rhode Island, and regularly visited his patients in New York.
- In 1885, he resumed his practice in New York but resigned his teaching position.
- He retired from medical practice in 1896. Séguin died in 1898 from cirrhosis of the liver.
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