Henry Charlton Bastian

Henry Charlton Bastian (April 26, 1837 – November 17, 1915) was an English neurologist and physiologist, noted for his extensive work in neurological science and his advocacy of archebiosis ("Spontaneous Generation"), which he reported to have demonstrated experimentally.

Background
Bastian entered University College, London in 1856, graduating M.A. from the University of London in 1861, and M.D. in 1866. In addition to his career as a physician (at both the college hospital and National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic), he was a professor of pathological anatomy, and later professor of medicine and clinical medicine, at the University College.

Selected Bibliography

 * "The Modes of Origin of Lowest Organisms" (1871)
 * "The Beginnings of Life" (1872)
 * "Evolution and the Origin of Life" (1874)
 * "Brain as an organ of mind" (1880)