Brain, Mind and Medicine:: Essays in Eighteenth-Century NeuroscienceHarry Whitaker, C.U.M. Smith, Stanley Finger No books have been published on the practice of neuroscience in the eighteenth century, a time of transition and discovery in science and medicine. This volume explores neuroscience and reviews developments in anatomy, physiology, and medicine in the era some call the Age of Reason, and others the Enlightenment. Topics include how neuroscience adopted electricity as the nerve force, how disorders such as aphasia and hysteria were treated, Mesmerism, and more. |
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... Willis: De Anima Brutorum 1674 Van Leeuwenhoek's microscopical sections of optic nerve 1676 Sydenham: Observationes Medicae 1677 Glisson: Tractatus de ventriculo et intestinis 1678 Lorenzini: Observationi intorno alle topedini 1679 ...
... Willis: De Anima Brutorum 1674 Van Leeuwenhoek's microscopical sections of optic nerve 1676 Sydenham: Observationes Medicae 1677 Glisson: Tractatus de ventriculo et intestinis 1678 Lorenzini: Observationi intorno alle topedini 1679 ...
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... Willis ' Cerebri Anatome . The end point is less clear . Should it be with Gall and Spurzheim's phrenology ( 1810-1819 ) or Charles Bell's Idea for a New Anatomy of the Brain in 1811 , or even later still , in the 1840s , with Emil du ...
... Willis ' Cerebri Anatome . The end point is less clear . Should it be with Gall and Spurzheim's phrenology ( 1810-1819 ) or Charles Bell's Idea for a New Anatomy of the Brain in 1811 , or even later still , in the 1840s , with Emil du ...
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... Willis that , separated by the diaphragm , a lower , concu- piscent soul . The Timaeus is an explicit continua- tion of the Republic and its tripartite schematic mirrors the tripartite sociology of Plato's ideal Descartes ' L'Homme was ...
... Willis that , separated by the diaphragm , a lower , concu- piscent soul . The Timaeus is an explicit continua- tion of the Republic and its tripartite schematic mirrors the tripartite sociology of Plato's ideal Descartes ' L'Homme was ...
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... Willis Nerves are not Hollow Conduits ( Willis , 1664 ) , although he had much first - hand experience of dissecting specimens from butch- ers ' shops in Amsterdam . His psychophysiology is yet more speculative ( see Smith , 1998 ) ...
... Willis Nerves are not Hollow Conduits ( Willis , 1664 ) , although he had much first - hand experience of dissecting specimens from butch- ers ' shops in Amsterdam . His psychophysiology is yet more speculative ( see Smith , 1998 ) ...
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... (Willis' pupil), Swammerdam and others to discover the world of microbes and protista. Leibniz at the beginning of the eighteenth century, impressed by the work of Jan Swammerdam and Antony van Leeuwenhoek, saw continuity all the way ...
... (Willis' pupil), Swammerdam and others to discover the world of microbes and protista. Leibniz at the beginning of the eighteenth century, impressed by the work of Jan Swammerdam and Antony van Leeuwenhoek, saw continuity all the way ...
Contents
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Corpus Curricula Medical Education and the Voluntary | 43 |
Some Thoughts on the Medical Milieu in the Last Quarter | 53 |
Introduction | 63 |
Physiology and Anatomy by François Pourfour du Petit | 99 |
Irritable Glue The HallerWhytt Controversy on the Mechanism | 115 |
Swedenborg and Localization Theory | 201 |
Introduction | 211 |
Apoplexy Changing Concepts in the Eighteenth Century | 233 |
Gentlemans Magazine the Advent of Medical Electricity | 257 |
Therapeutic Attractions Early Applications of Electricity | 271 |
John Wesley on the Estimation and Cure of Nervous Disorders | 285 |
Franz Anton Mesmer and the Rise and Fall of Animal Magnetism | 301 |
Hysteria in the Eighteenth Century | 321 |
The Taming of the Electric Ray From a Wonderful and Dreadful | 125 |
Luigi Galvani Physician Surgeon Physicist From Animal | 145 |
Introduction | 161 |
David Hartleys Neural Vibrations and Psychological Associations | 177 |
Charles Bonnets Neurophilosophy | 191 |
Introduction | 335 |
Explorations of the Brain Mind and Medicine in | 345 |
in the Eighteenth Century | 353 |
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