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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... motions of our eyes 1737 Kinneir : A new essay on the nerves .. 1737/8 Swammerdam ( published by Boerhaave ) : Bybel der Natuure ( Biblia Naturae ) 1739 Bayne : A new essay on the nerves 1740/41 Swedenborg : Oeconomia Regni Animalis ...
... motions of our eyes 1737 Kinneir : A new essay on the nerves .. 1737/8 Swammerdam ( published by Boerhaave ) : Bybel der Natuure ( Biblia Naturae ) 1739 Bayne : A new essay on the nerves 1740/41 Swedenborg : Oeconomia Regni Animalis ...
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... motions and activity ... ' ( Sterne , 1760 , p . 1 ) , and Jonathan Swift , in the 1704 Mechanical Operation of the Spirit ... motion in those parts ; and this being conveyed by the animal spirit into the muscles of the face , raises the ...
... motions and activity ... ' ( Sterne , 1760 , p . 1 ) , and Jonathan Swift , in the 1704 Mechanical Operation of the Spirit ... motion in those parts ; and this being conveyed by the animal spirit into the muscles of the face , raises the ...
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... motion of thought' (Porter, 2003, p. 169). Johnson was burdened with many of the 'ills the flesh is heir to', half blind in one eye, half deaf in one ear, corpulent, subject to all sorts of tics and compulsions. Yet he was gifted with ...
... motion of thought' (Porter, 2003, p. 169). Johnson was burdened with many of the 'ills the flesh is heir to', half blind in one eye, half deaf in one ear, corpulent, subject to all sorts of tics and compulsions. Yet he was gifted with ...
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... Motion or Action of Bodies , gently or violently impressing the Extremities or Sides of the Nerves ... ' ( Cheyne , 1733 , p . 49 ) . This recognition that the nerves were not merely inanimate conduits for an animating principle orig ...
... Motion or Action of Bodies , gently or violently impressing the Extremities or Sides of the Nerves ... ' ( Cheyne , 1733 , p . 49 ) . This recognition that the nerves were not merely inanimate conduits for an animating principle orig ...
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... motion , and the latter to receive and communicate it ( vol . 1 , p . 1 ) . He com- pares the ' spirit of animation ' with other ' spirits ' , such as electricity , magnetism , gravitation , heat . ' If two particles of iron ' , he ...
... motion , and the latter to receive and communicate it ( vol . 1 , p . 1 ) . He com- pares the ' spirit of animation ' with other ' spirits ' , such as electricity , magnetism , gravitation , heat . ' If two particles of iron ' , he ...
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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