title: William Halse Rivers Rivers (1864-1922) and the sensory nervous system.
abstract: The polymath William Rivers played an important role in his work with Henry Head in demonstrating the varied, evolving patterns of sensory loss, and epicritic and protopathic sensation, after the section of the superficial ramus of Head's left radial nerve. After a mixed and frustrated army career Rivers devoted his attentions to shell shock and other psychological disturbances which were well received in his time. Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen were among the distinguished patients whose writings revealed Rivers as the revered object of their gratitude.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Hull Royal Infirmary, Hull, UK.
authors.forename: J M S
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Pearce
mesh_terms: D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D009416:Nerve Regeneration / Q000502:physiology; D009424:Nervous System Physiological Phenomena; D009462:Neurology / Q000266:history*; D011173:Portraits as Topic; D011984:Sensory Receptor Cells / Q000502:physiology*