1. Family and schooling in Victorian England
2. Apprentice years 1861-2
3. Apprentice year 1863
4. Medical student 1863-70
5. Choosing neurology
6. Gowers and clinical diagnosis
7. Gowers the researcher
8. Gowers the writer and lecturer
9. Life outside work
10. "Grand old man" of clinical neurology
11. Gowers: the man, his work, and his legacy.