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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... human understanding 1692 Salem witch trials 1704 Swift: Tale of a Tub 1707 Act of Union between England and Scotland 1710 Berkeley: Principles of Human Knowledge 1714 Leibniz: Monadology 1718 Watteau: Gilles 1719 Defoe: Robinson Crusoe ...
... human understanding 1692 Salem witch trials 1704 Swift: Tale of a Tub 1707 Act of Union between England and Scotland 1710 Berkeley: Principles of Human Knowledge 1714 Leibniz: Monadology 1718 Watteau: Gilles 1719 Defoe: Robinson Crusoe ...
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... Human Nature 1742 Handel : Messiah 1747 Richardson : Clarissa 1748 Gainsborough : Mr and Mrs Andrews 1750 Rousseau : Discours sur les sciences et les arts 1751 d'Alembert : Discours préliminaire 1751 Diderot : Encyclopédie , vol.1 1755 ...
... Human Nature 1742 Handel : Messiah 1747 Richardson : Clarissa 1748 Gainsborough : Mr and Mrs Andrews 1750 Rousseau : Discours sur les sciences et les arts 1751 d'Alembert : Discours préliminaire 1751 Diderot : Encyclopédie , vol.1 1755 ...
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... Human Mind 1764 Voltaire : Dictionnaire Philosophique 1765 Lunar Society founded 1767 Fragonard : The Swing 1768 Cook's first voyage 1769 Arkwright's Spinning Jenny 1769 James Watt invents steam engine 1770 Cook at Botany Bay 1773 First ...
... Human Mind 1764 Voltaire : Dictionnaire Philosophique 1765 Lunar Society founded 1767 Fragonard : The Swing 1768 Cook's first voyage 1769 Arkwright's Spinning Jenny 1769 James Watt invents steam engine 1770 Cook at Botany Bay 1773 First ...
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... human ascent in hot - air balloon 1786 Kant : Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Naturwissenschaft 1786 Mozart : Le Nozze di Figaro 1789 Revolution in France 1790 Burke : Reflections on the Revolution in France 1791 Paine : The Rights of ...
... human ascent in hot - air balloon 1786 Kant : Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Naturwissenschaft 1786 Mozart : Le Nozze di Figaro 1789 Revolution in France 1790 Burke : Reflections on the Revolution in France 1791 Paine : The Rights of ...
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... human animals sensation . Descartes writes to the Marquess of Newcastle , ' As for the movements of our passions . . . it is ... very clear that they do not depend on thought , because they often occur in spite of us . Consequently they ...
... human animals sensation . Descartes writes to the Marquess of Newcastle , ' As for the movements of our passions . . . it is ... very clear that they do not depend on thought , because they often occur in spite of us . Consequently they ...
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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