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Robert Bartholow or Roberts Bartholow (November 28, 1831 – May 10, 1904) was an American physician from New Windsor, Maryland. He earned his degree in medicine from the University of Maryland in 1852. From 1855 to 1864 he was a surgeon in the U.S. Army. From 1864 to 1879 he was a professor at the Medical College of Ohio in Cincinnati. Afterwards he was a professor at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. ==Career== He is known for his application of Faradic electric currents to the exposed dura of a patient. In 1874, Bartholow was presented with a 30-year-old patient named Mary Rafferty who had a hole in her skull caused by a cancerous ulcer. Inspired by the localized testing of animals' brains done by neurologist David Ferrier, Bartholow applied a small electric current to different sections of Ms. Rafferty's exposed brain and noticed that it caused movements in various parts of her body. The low electric current he applied to the brain did not seem to cause her any pain. However, when Bartholow applied a larger amount of current, Mary Rafferty became distressed, experienced convulsions and went into a coma. She revived from the coma three days later, but the following day she had a major seizure and died. He described the experiment as follows: Although Bartholow was criticized for his experimentation by the American Medical Association, he did not suffer professionally; in 1893 he attained the title of Professor Emeritus at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. He died at his home in Philadelphia in 1904.〔http://books.google.ca/books?id=65JXAAAAMAAJ&q=Robert+Bartholow+November+1831&dq=Robert+Bartholow+November+1831〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Bartholow」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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