James Stansfield Collier

For other James Stansfields, see James Stansfield (disambiguation).

James Stansfield Collier
FRCP
Born1870
Died(1935-02-09)9 February 1935
30 Wimpole Street, Marylebone, London[1][2]
Occupation(s)Physician and neurologist
Known forCollier's sign (1927)[3]
synonym: Collier tucked lid sign;[4]
Collier tract;[5]
description of cerebral tonsillar herniation (1904)[6][7]

James Stansfield Collier FRCP (1870 – 9 February 1935) was an English physician and neurologist.[8] His brother was the surgeon Horace Stansfield Collier.

St Mary's Hospital, London.

Early life

Collier was born in 1870, the second son of Alfred Henry Collier and his wife Sarah Collier (née Stansfield). Sarah was a descendant of the Stansfield family of Stansfield, Yorkshire.[9] His elder brother was the surgeon Horace Stansfield Collier (1864–1930).[10]

Career

After education at the City and Guilds of London Institute, James Collier studied medicine at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, graduating BSc (Lond.) in 1890, MB in 1894, and MD in 1896 from the University of London.[1] He held junior appointments at St Mary's Hospital[8] and was a demonstrator of biology there.[2] At London's National Hospital, Queen Square he was appointed house physician in 1898, registrar in 1899, pathologist in 1901, assistant physician in 1902, physician to out-patients in 1908, and physician in 1921.[1] He also held appointments at St George's Hospital and lectured there on medicine and neurology. He lectured on neurology at Bethlem Royal Hospital and was consulting physician to the Royal Eye Hospital, Southwark.[8]

He was a frequent contributor to Brain and wrote chapters in Allbutt and Rolleston's System of medicine. With his friend WJ Adie (1886–1935), he was responsible for the section on neurology in Price's textbook of medicine. ... His most esteemed work is his comprehensive analysis of Subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord, ... written in 1900 in collaboration with JSR Russell and FE Batten.[6]

... Collier was widely regarded as a neurologist of the first rank. He made many contributions to the subject ... such as those on ... Babinski's sign, the localizing signs of cerebral tumours, and Bell's paralysis.[1]

The contemporary concept of the physiology of the Babinski response is similar to that described by Collier in 1899 ...[11]

He worked with Hughlings Jackson on respiratory movements in chloroform anaesthesia, with Kinnier Wilson on myotonia congenita and on disorders that Gowers described as 'ataxia paraplegia'.[12]

On 1 September 1906 at All Souls Church, Langham Place, Collier married Minna Maude Summerhayes. They had one son and two daughters. James Collier's elder brother was Horace Stansfield Collier, F.R.C.S.[8][13]

Honours

Selected publications

  • Collier, James (1899). "An investigation upon the plantar reflex, with reference to the significance of its variations under pathological conditions, including enquiry into aetiology of acquired pes cavus". Brain. 22: 71–99. doi:10.1093/brain/22.1.71 – via Hathi Trust.
  • Russell, J. S. Risien; Batten, F. E.; —— (1900). "Subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord". Brain. 23 (5156): 39–110. doi:10.1093/brain/23.1.39. PMC 1990373. PMID 13856913 – via Hathi Trust.
  • —— (23 April 1927). "An Address on An Address on The Epidemiology and Pathology of Poliomyelitis". Br Med J. 1 (3459): 751–753. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.3459.751. PMC 2454767. PMID 20773143.
  • —— (17 August 1929). "The diagnosis of frontal tumours". Br Med J. 2 (3580): 289–291. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.3580.289. PMC 2451663. PMID 20774855.
  • —— (March 1930). "Paralysis of the Oculomotor Nerve-trunks in Diabetes". Proc R Soc Med. 23 (5): 627–630. PMC 2181855. PMID 19987441.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Obituary. James Stansfield Collier, M.D., B.Sc., F.R.C.P." Br Med J. 1 (3868): 392–393. 23 February 1935. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.3868.392-b. PMC 2459776. PMID 20778884. page 392, page 393
  2. ^ a b "Collier, James Stansfield, M.D., B.Sc. Lond., F.R.C.P." Who's Who. 1923. p. 572.
  3. ^ Collier, James (1 October 1927). "Nuclear ophthalmoplegia, with especial reference to retraction of the lids and ptosis and to lesions of the posterior commissure". Brain. 50 (3–4): 488–498. doi:10.1093/brain/50.3-4.488.
  4. ^ Bartolucci, Sue; Forbis, Pat, eds. (2005). Stedman's Medical Eponyms (2nd ed.). Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins. p. 147. ISBN 9780781754439.
  5. ^ Stedman, Thomas Lathrop (2005). Stedman's Medical Eponyms (2nd ed.). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 148. ISBN 9780781754439.
  6. ^ a b Pearce, J. M. S. (July 2006). "James Collier (1870–1935) and uncal herniation". J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 77 (7): 883–884. doi:10.1136/jnnp.2006.087544. PMC 2117488. PMID 16788016.
  7. ^ Collier, James (1904). "The false localising signs of intracranial tumour". Brain. 27 (4): 490–508. doi:10.1093/brain/27.4.490.
  8. ^ a b c d e "James Stansfield Collier". Munk's Roll, Volume IV, Lives of the Fellows, Royal College of Physicians.
  9. ^ Stansfeld, J. (1885). History of the Stansfeld Family of Stansfield in the Parish of Halifax and its numerous branches. Leeds.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  10. ^ "Collier, Horace Stansfield (1864 - 1930)". Royal College of Surgeons of England. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  11. ^ Finger, Stanley; Boller, François; Tyler, Kenneth L., eds. (2009). "Chapter 16. History of the development of the neurological examination by Edward J. Fine and M. Ziad Darkhabani". History of Neurology. Handbook of Clinical Neurology. Vol. 95. Elsevier. pp. 213–234. ISBN 978-0702035418; 944 pages{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) (quote from pp. 223–224)
  12. ^ Rose, Frank Clifford (2012). History of British Neurology. World Scientific. p. 140. ISBN 978-1848166684.
  13. ^ "Collier, Horace Stansfield". Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online. Royal College of Surgeons of England.
  14. ^ Collier, James S. (1924). "President's Address: The Pathogenesis of Cerebral Diplegia". Proc R Soc Med. 17(Neurol Sect) (Neurol Sect): 1–11. doi:10.1093/brain/47.1.1. PMC 2201420. PMID 19983791.
  15. ^ Collier, James (1928). "Lumleian Lectures On Epilepsy, Lecture III: The Lumleian Lectures, 1928, delivered at the Royal College of Physicians of London". The Lancet. 211 (5458): 687–692. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(00)96783-7.
  16. ^ Collier, James (11 January 1930). "The Savill Memorial Oration on Localization of Function in the Nervous System". Br Med J. 1 (3601): 55–61. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.3601.55. PMC 2312582. PMID 20775198.
  17. ^ Collier, James (October 1932). "Peripheral Neuritis. The Morison Lectures, 1932, Delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, May 1932". Edinb Med J. 39 (10): 601–618. PMC 5329456. PMID 29639052.
  18. ^ Collier, James (November 1932). "Peripheral Neuritis. The Morison Lectures, 1932, Delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, May 1932". Edinb Med J. 39 (11): 672–688. PMC 5329369. PMID 29639005.
  19. ^ Collier, James (December 1932). "Peripheral Neuritis. The Morison Lectures, 1932, Delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, May 1932". Edinb Med J. 39 (12): 697–713. PMC 5329461. PMID 29639054.
  20. ^ "The Morison Lectureship on Mental Diseases". Edinb Med J. 10 (6): 573. December 1864. PMC 5311568. PMID 29646212.
  21. ^ Collier, James (20 October 1934). "The Harveian Oration on Inventions and the Outlook in Neurology". Br Med J. 2 (3850): 707–711. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.3850.707. PMC 2445784. PMID 20778600.