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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... sense and nonsense ... depend on its motions and activity ... ' ( Sterne , 1760 , p . 1 ) , and Jonathan Swift , in the 1704 Mechanical Operation of the Spirit , writes that it is the Opinion of Choice Virtuosi , that the Brain is only ...
... sense and nonsense ... depend on its motions and activity ... ' ( Sterne , 1760 , p . 1 ) , and Jonathan Swift , in the 1704 Mechanical Operation of the Spirit , writes that it is the Opinion of Choice Virtuosi , that the Brain is only ...
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... sense organs consist of contractile fibres with a lengthy account of the retina and the phenomenon of ocular spectra (we would say 'after-images') (Darwin, 1801, vol. 2, pp. 373–374; also Darwin, 1786) (8). He describes an investigation ...
... sense organs consist of contractile fibres with a lengthy account of the retina and the phenomenon of ocular spectra (we would say 'after-images') (Darwin, 1801, vol. 2, pp. 373–374; also Darwin, 1786) (8). He describes an investigation ...
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... sense and motion speeds the transient hours ; Braves each season , tenants every clime And Nature rises on the wings of Time . This optimistic view of progressive evolution based on the inheritance of acquired characteristics was , of ...
... sense and motion speeds the transient hours ; Braves each season , tenants every clime And Nature rises on the wings of Time . This optimistic view of progressive evolution based on the inheritance of acquired characteristics was , of ...
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... sense hol- low , in fact , lingered on well into the middle of the nineteenth century . Microscopes and preparative tech- niques were just not good enough to eliminate the pos- sibility that nerve trunks did not contain minute channels ...
... sense hol- low , in fact , lingered on well into the middle of the nineteenth century . Microscopes and preparative tech- niques were just not good enough to eliminate the pos- sibility that nerve trunks did not contain minute channels ...
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... senses . 9. It is likely that Darwin received this idea from Alexander Monro Primus , his anatomy teacher at Edinburgh in the 1750s . ' Let us now suppose it prob- able ' writes Monro ' that the encephalon and spinal marrow secern a ...
... senses . 9. It is likely that Darwin received this idea from Alexander Monro Primus , his anatomy teacher at Edinburgh in the 1750s . ' Let us now suppose it prob- able ' writes Monro ' that the encephalon and spinal marrow secern a ...
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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