Sanger Brown was an American

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 physician. He was born in Bloomfield (Ontario

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), Canada

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, graduated in 1880 at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College

New York University School of Medicine

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 (New York City

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), was assistant physician at the Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane (White Plains, N. Y.

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) in 1882–1885, and acting medical superintendent there in 1886. In 1890 he was appointed professor

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 of neurology

Neurology

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 in the Post-Graduate Medical School of Chicago, and in 1901–1906 was associate professor of medicine and clinical medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons

University of Illinois College of Medicine

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 in the same city. In his experiments with E. A. Schäfer at University College

University College London

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, London

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, in 1886–1887, he was the first to demonstrate conclusively that in monkeys the centre of vision is located in the occipital lobe

Occipital lobe

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. In 1908 he joined the United States Army Medical Reserve Corps with rank of first lieutenant.