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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... Apartado Postal 14-740, México, D.F. 07000, Mexico Christopher Gardner-Thorpe Consultant Neurologist, The Coach House, 1a College Road, Exeter EX1 1TE, UK Robert B. Glassman Department of Psychology, Lake Forest College, 555 xi.
... Apartado Postal 14-740, México, D.F. 07000, Mexico Christopher Gardner-Thorpe Consultant Neurologist, The Coach House, 1a College Road, Exeter EX1 1TE, UK Robert B. Glassman Department of Psychology, Lake Forest College, 555 xi.
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... Neurologist, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Tomah, WI Professor of Neurology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI Joseph T. Lanska 500 E Veterans Street, Tomah, WI 54600 Marjorie Perlman Lorch School of Languages, Linguistics and ...
... Neurologist, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Tomah, WI Professor of Neurology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI Joseph T. Lanska 500 E Veterans Street, Tomah, WI 54600 Marjorie Perlman Lorch School of Languages, Linguistics and ...
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... Neurology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 912 S. Wood St., 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60612 Catherine E. Storey Clinical Associate Professor, Northern Clinical School, University of Sydney Department of Neurology, Royal North Shore ...
... Neurology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 912 S. Wood St., 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60612 Catherine E. Storey Clinical Associate Professor, Northern Clinical School, University of Sydney Department of Neurology, Royal North Shore ...
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... neurology and neuroscience and by including many quotations from his own work allow him, for the most part, to speak for himself. Next, Larry Kruger and Larry Swanson discuss the important but rather little known work of Pourfour du ...
... neurology and neuroscience and by including many quotations from his own work allow him, for the most part, to speak for himself. Next, Larry Kruger and Larry Swanson discuss the important but rather little known work of Pourfour du ...
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... neurologists, but also to others in the many disciplines which study eighteenth-century life and thought. Chronology C.U.M. Smith In this chronological table of the ' 4 Harry Whitaker, C.U.M. Smith, and Stanley Finger.
... neurologists, but also to others in the many disciplines which study eighteenth-century life and thought. Chronology C.U.M. Smith In this chronological table of the ' 4 Harry Whitaker, C.U.M. Smith, and Stanley Finger.
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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