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The nature of the connexion between the mind and nervous matter has ever been, and must continue to be, the deepest mystery in physiology; and they who study the laws of Nature, as ordinances of God, will regard it as one of those secrets of his counsels 'which Angels desire to look into.'

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Robert Bentley Todd

Robert Bentley Todd
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Born: April 9, 1809
Died: January 30, 1860 (aged 50)
Bio: Robert Bentley Todd was an Irish-born physician who is best known for describing the condition postictal paralysis in his Lumleian Lectures in 1849 now known as Todd's palsy.

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