Richard Caton

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Richard Caton

1842–1926

A pioneering British physician and physiologist, he is best remembered for some of the earliest recorded experiments on electrical activity in the brain. His career also reached beyond science into civic life in Liverpool, where he served as Lord Mayor.

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The Temples and Ritual of Asklepios at Epidauros and Athens Two Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain

The Temples and Ritual of Asklepios at Epidauros and Athens Two Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain

by Richard Caton

I-em-hotep and Ancient Egyptian medicine: II. Prevention of valvular disease The Harveian Oration delivered before the Royal college of physicians on June 21, 1904

I-em-hotep and Ancient Egyptian medicine: II. Prevention of valvular disease The Harveian Oration delivered before the Royal college of physicians on June 21, 1904

by Richard Caton

About the author

Born in 1842, he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and went on to build a career in Liverpool as a physician and researcher. He became known for careful early investigations into the brain, carrying out experiments in the 1870s that are often recognized as an important step toward modern electroencephalography.

Alongside his scientific work, he was active in public life and later served as Lord Mayor of Liverpool. That mix of laboratory curiosity, medical practice, and civic duty helped make him a distinctive figure in late Victorian and early 20th-century Britain.

He died in 1926, leaving a reputation as both a serious medical thinker and an early explorer of how the brain generates electrical signals.