Bram Stoker’s brother, the brain surgeon

2013 · Progress in Brain Research

Anne Stiles

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Anne Stiles examines Sir William Thornley Stoker’s surgical work, reservations about animal experimentation and connections with Dracula’s medical material. This substantial biographical chapter concerns Bram’s elder brother. The linked record provides an abstract; full text may require institutional or paid access.

PubMed’s complete abstract and publication record inspected: Anne Stiles, Progress in Brain Research 205 (2013), pages 197–218, DOI 10.1016/B978-0-444-63273-9.00011-3. This English account covers the abstract, not the complete chapter. The full chapter is not held and may require institutional or paid access; the related photograph depicts Thornley at his desk.

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Sir Thornley Stoker, Bram’s elder brother, at his deskCourtesy of the Bram Stoker Estate.