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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... what we now call electrophysiology. Marco Piccolino provides a detailed review of eighteenth-century research into electric fish, whilst Rafaella Simili and Miriam 3 Introduction Harry Whitaker, C U M Smith, and Stanley Finger.
... what we now call electrophysiology. Marco Piccolino provides a detailed review of eighteenth-century research into electric fish, whilst Rafaella Simili and Miriam 3 Introduction Harry Whitaker, C U M Smith, and Stanley Finger.
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... fish, whilst Rafaella Simili and Miriam Focaccia pro- vide a similarly scholarly account of Luigi Galvani's career and discoveries. The fourth section of the book is devoted to long-standing complex issues of brain and behav- ior. Nick ...
... fish, whilst Rafaella Simili and Miriam Focaccia pro- vide a similarly scholarly account of Luigi Galvani's career and discoveries. The fourth section of the book is devoted to long-standing complex issues of brain and behav- ior. Nick ...
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... fish, insect! what no eye can see No glass can reach! from Infinite to thee, From thee to Nothing! . . . Essay on Man, 237–241 Leibniz' prediction that zoophytes (links, as he sup- posed, between the animal and plant worlds) must exist ...
... fish, insect! what no eye can see No glass can reach! from Infinite to thee, From thee to Nothing! . . . Essay on Man, 237–241 Leibniz' prediction that zoophytes (links, as he sup- posed, between the animal and plant worlds) must exist ...
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... fish such as Gymnotus and Torpedo . These investigations made considerable headway in the eighteenth century and in the next century led both to the science of neurophysiology and via the elec- tric or voltaic ' pile ' to the physics of ...
... fish such as Gymnotus and Torpedo . These investigations made considerable headway in the eighteenth century and in the next century led both to the science of neurophysiology and via the elec- tric or voltaic ' pile ' to the physics of ...
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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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