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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... Theory Ulf Norrsell Section E : Medical Theories and Applications Introduction The Editors 15 : Neuroscience in the Work of Boerhaave and Haller Peter J. Koehler 201 211 213 233 17: Benjamin Franklin and the Electrical Cure for ...
... Theory Ulf Norrsell Section E : Medical Theories and Applications Introduction The Editors 15 : Neuroscience in the Work of Boerhaave and Haller Peter J. Koehler 201 211 213 233 17: Benjamin Franklin and the Electrical Cure for ...
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... Theory of Vision 1710 Petit: Lettres d'un Medecin 1714 Boerhaave commences clinical teaching 1726 Establishment of Faculty of Medicine at Edinburgh 1727 Petit discovers functions of cervical sympathetics 1731/5 Gray: Electrical ...
... Theory of Vision 1710 Petit: Lettres d'un Medecin 1714 Boerhaave commences clinical teaching 1726 Establishment of Faculty of Medicine at Edinburgh 1727 Petit discovers functions of cervical sympathetics 1731/5 Gray: Electrical ...
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... Theory of the Earth 1786 John Hunter : Observations on certain parts of the animal economy 1787 Abernethy establishes a surgical curriculum at St Bartholomew's Hospital 1789 Lavoisier : Traité Elémentaire de Chimie 1789 Pinel ...
... Theory of the Earth 1786 John Hunter : Observations on certain parts of the animal economy 1787 Abernethy establishes a surgical curriculum at St Bartholomew's Hospital 1789 Lavoisier : Traité Elémentaire de Chimie 1789 Pinel ...
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... theory of lights and colours 1802-22 Treviranus: Biologie 1803 Darwin: Temple of Nature 1804 Aldini: Essai théorique et expérimentale sur le galvanisme 1804 Wilkinson: Elements of Galvanism 1807 Trotter: A view of the nervous ...
... theory of lights and colours 1802-22 Treviranus: Biologie 1803 Darwin: Temple of Nature 1804 Aldini: Essai théorique et expérimentale sur le galvanisme 1804 Wilkinson: Elements of Galvanism 1807 Trotter: A view of the nervous ...
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... theory , where the ' rational ' soul is divided into a number of parts and located in three cerebral ventricles or ' cells ' , is more obscure ( 1 ) . There are hints both in Nemesius of Emesa ( fl . fourth century AD ) whose work , On ...
... theory , where the ' rational ' soul is divided into a number of parts and located in three cerebral ventricles or ' cells ' , is more obscure ( 1 ) . There are hints both in Nemesius of Emesa ( fl . fourth century AD ) whose work , On ...
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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