PIONEER IN STUDY OF EPILEPSY. 21 Offprints by Lennox, William Gordon - 1928-1954

1928-1954. First editions.

1928-1954 ARCHIVE OF OFFPRINTS BY PIONEERING EPILEPTOLOGIST W. G. LENNOX COLLECTED BY HIS SUCCESSOR, C. T. LOMBROSO.

Archive of 21 offprints of papers by Dr. William G. Lennox, from the estate of dr. Cesare T. Lombroso, who succeeded Lennox as director of the Seizure Unit at the Children's Hospital, Boston.

WILLIAM GORDON LENNOX (1884-1960) first became interested in epilepsy when working as medical missionary in China. At the Harvard Medical School, he published many papers with Frederic Gibbs with whom he was jointly awarded the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research in 1951. From 1935 to 1949 Lennox was president of the International League Against Epilepsy, and from 1941 to 1952 editor of the Epilepsia. From 1936 to 1937 he served as first president of the American League Against Epilepsy, which later became the American Epilepsy Society. In 1951 he described a special epilepsy syndrome, later named after him and the French neurologist and epileptologist Henri Gastaut: the Lennox-Gastaut syndrome.

CESARE T. LOMBROSO (1917-2013) received his M.D. degree in 1946 from the University of Genoa and then, in 1950, his PhD degree from the University of Rome. Later that year, Dr Lombroso began his long association with Harvard and The Children's Hospital. In 1962, he succeeded Dr William G. Lennox as Chief of the Seizure Unit and EEG Laboratory at Children's Hospital, positions he held until he retired from the faculty of Harvard Medical School in 1988. Believing, as did Dr Lennox, that children with seizures do best when they are treated in a center that can address simultaneously the multiple interacting medical, psychosocial, behavioral and family issues that impact on their lives, Dr Lombroso succeeded in making the Seizure Unit at Children's Hospital a preeminent center for both treatment and clinical investigation.