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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... ment our history rather than more significant periods of time , periods which have a coherent content , or are marked , perhaps , by the working out of a theme ? Students of English literature some- times take the long eighteenth ...
... ment our history rather than more significant periods of time , periods which have a coherent content , or are marked , perhaps , by the working out of a theme ? Students of English literature some- times take the long eighteenth ...
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... ments designed to discover which parts of an animal are irritable . His stimuli included blowing , heat , spirit of wine , lapis infinalis , oil of vitriol , butter of antinomy , touching , cutting , burning , etc. He con- cludes that ...
... ments designed to discover which parts of an animal are irritable . His stimuli included blowing , heat , spirit of wine , lapis infinalis , oil of vitriol , butter of antinomy , touching , cutting , burning , etc. He con- cludes that ...
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... ment . As Paola Bertucci remarks , it played to that taste for the marvellous and the inexplicable , which is so much a part of human nature and which per- vaded the eighteenth - century learned world . No one yet understood this ...
... ment . As Paola Bertucci remarks , it played to that taste for the marvellous and the inexplicable , which is so much a part of human nature and which per- vaded the eighteenth - century learned world . No one yet understood this ...
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... ments conclusive which were lately published by Galvani, Volta and others to shew the similitude between the spirit of animation which contract muscular fibres and the electrical fluid'. Darwin's system provides a fascinating insight ...
... ments conclusive which were lately published by Galvani, Volta and others to shew the similitude between the spirit of animation which contract muscular fibres and the electrical fluid'. Darwin's system provides a fascinating insight ...
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... ment of associated muscular activities during baby- hood . He goes on to anticipate Ivan Pavlov by well over a century in accounts of nutritional condi- tioned reflexes . He writes of ' ... those unconquer- able antipathies . . . which ...
... ment of associated muscular activities during baby- hood . He goes on to anticipate Ivan Pavlov by well over a century in accounts of nutritional condi- tioned reflexes . He writes of ' ... those unconquer- able antipathies . . . which ...
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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