IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 156590 accession number: CM.71-2005 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 30 June 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Sir David Ferrier, as he was at his death, was a pioneer in the field of the neurology of the brain. Working first at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases and Epilepsy in London and later in his own laboratories he was able to use electronic stimulation of the brain to associate certain areas in it with the motor functions of the body. He could thereby show that epilepsy and similar conditions were caused by genuine physiological problems in particular parts of the brain, which could therefore be affected by localised surgery. His work, controversial because of his experimentation on live animals, has nevertheless been the foundation of the modern mapping of the human cortex and of the treatment of many diseases of the brain. He was also a co-founder of the medical journal The Brain, which is still in publication. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1876 at the age of 33, and was knighted in 1911. When he died in 1928, a fund was set up to establish a triennial lecture in his name at the Royal Society, on the structure and function of the nervous system, and this lecture is still given today--the 2007 one used computer imaging to show how Ferrier's work continued in the twenty-first century. The invitation to lecture is considered one of the prizes of the Royal Society, and the successful lecturer is awarded a bronze medal. This piece is a proof of that medal from the workshop of the designer, Allan Gairdner Wyon. title: Ferrier Lecture Medal NOTES ----- type: history note value: From the estate of the late Mrs Venetia M. Watson, daughter of the artist LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Coins and Medals collection: Wyon Collection STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/156590 CATEGORIES ------ category: medal DATING ------ creation date: 1928 - 1929 creation date earliest: 1928 creation date latest: 1929 CREATORS -------- maker: Wyon, Allan Gairdner maker: Royal Society maker: Ferrier, David, Sir CITATIONS -------- Ferrier, Sir David (1843-1928) --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_71_2005_281_29.jpg height: 359 pixels width: 360 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_71_2005_281_29.jpg height: 359 pixels width: 360 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_71_2005_281_29.jpg height: 359 pixels width: 360 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/preview_CM_71_2005_281_29.jpg height: 249 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_71_2005_282_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 358 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_71_2005_282_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 358 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_71_2005_282_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 358 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/preview_CM_71_2005_282_29.jpg height: 255 pixels width: 250 pixels