Francis Walshe

Sir Francis Martin Rouse Walshe, FRS[1] (19 September 1885 – 21 February 1973) was a British neurologist.

He then read medicine at University College Hospital, London from 1903 to 1910 and was awarded BSc in 1908 and MB in 1910.

During the First World War he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps as Consulting Neurologist to the British Forces in Egypt and the Middle East from 1915-1919.

As a physician he pioneered the description and analysis of human reflexes in physiological terms.

His son John Michael Walshe made contributions to the treatment of Wilson's disease, using penicillamine on a patient identified by his father.