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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... tion developed in association with the voluntary hospitals movement. Finally, Christopher Gardner- Thorpe uses the life and work of James Parkinson as a lens through which to examine medicine and its milieu during the last quarter of ...
... tion developed in association with the voluntary hospitals movement. Finally, Christopher Gardner- Thorpe uses the life and work of James Parkinson as a lens through which to examine medicine and its milieu during the last quarter of ...
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... tion dates of novels and plays , the first performances Science ( Neuroscience in bold ) 1660 Foundation of Royal Society 1660 Mariotte discovers eye's blind spot 1660 Boyle : New experiments physico - mechanical touching the spring of ...
... tion dates of novels and plays , the first performances Science ( Neuroscience in bold ) 1660 Foundation of Royal Society 1660 Mariotte discovers eye's blind spot 1660 Boyle : New experiments physico - mechanical touching the spring of ...
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... tion with the voluntary hospital movement in England is the subject of the next chapter by Jonathan Reinarz. Reinarz starts his account in the sixteenth century when British physicians received a university education but surgeons were ...
... tion with the voluntary hospital movement in England is the subject of the next chapter by Jonathan Reinarz. Reinarz starts his account in the sixteenth century when British physicians received a university education but surgeons were ...
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... tion of the Republic and its tripartite schematic mirrors the tripartite sociology of Plato's ideal Descartes ' L'Homme was published just 2 years before the start of our period , in 1662 , though it had been written long before ...
... tion of the Republic and its tripartite schematic mirrors the tripartite sociology of Plato's ideal Descartes ' L'Homme was published just 2 years before the start of our period , in 1662 , though it had been written long before ...
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... tion and was content to allow his fundamental units – the monads – to possess both attributes . century this had to remain a mystery . Haller would have nothing to do with Stahl's mysterious ani- mism and writes that muscle fibres are ...
... tion and was content to allow his fundamental units – the monads – to possess both attributes . century this had to remain a mystery . Haller would have nothing to do with Stahl's mysterious ani- mism and writes that muscle fibres are ...
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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