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 * [[image:henry_headshot.jpg align="left" link="http://www.massgeneral.org/neurology/shingles/autopsy_neuropathology.htm"]]Henry Head / "Henry Head had been working for some time on the regeneration of nerves after accidental injury…”/** Pg 46/ Henry Head was born August 4th, 1861 and died October 8th, 1940. He was a British doctor and focused primarily on sensory type things such as the brain and nerves./ [|W. H. R. Rivers], [|Sir Henry Head]/ His relevance to the book so far is that he worked on an experiment with Rivers in which they cut two nerves in Head’s forearm. They studied the regeneration of the nerves for five years, and Head is quoted as saying they were very happy times, and that they both seemed to have enjoyed working together on the expirement.A.C. & N.H.