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John Hunter's pupil and an eminent British surgeon who "enjoyed during his lifetime the highest reputation as a surgeon, anatomist, and physiologist, and exercised great influence on his profession" [DNB], Abernethy in 1796 was the first to ligate the external iliac artery for aneurysm and in 1798 the first to ligate the common carotid for hemorrhage. In the present work he reported numerous cases of head injury.
The classic work on the subject. A fifth (and final) edition appeared in 1974.
No copy located in OCLC. Contains H. Brunschweiler's "Observations cliniques sur les troubles de la sensibilité dans 12 cas de blessures pariétales de guerre"; Veraguth's "Zur Experimentalpsychologie der Sensibilitätsstörungen Hirnverletzter," "Zur Motilitätsuntersuchung nach Verletzung peripherer Nerven," and "Ueber die elektrische Behandlung von Lähmungen nach peripherer Nervenverletzung"; H. Reese's ""Ueber Geschoßseitendruckwirkungen auf das Rückenmark"; and Ludwig Binswanger's "Ueber Kommotionspsychosen" (an early pre-phenomenological paper by the founder of phenomenological psychiatry).
A detailed discussion of concussion with a 19 page bibliography and several chapters devoted to the historical literature.
Cordasco 90-1750.
An ambitious attempt to put American neurology "on the map." 34 Chapters by 22 distinguished authors. Includes Dercum on GPI, childhood palsies, & neurasthenia; Peterson on multiple sclerosis, bulbar palsy, & affections of the spinal cord; Morton Prince on general affections of the spinal cord; Osler on diseases as direct or indirect result of affection; James Lloyd on hysteria; Landon Carter Gray on epilepsy; introductory chapter by S. Weir Mitchell.
Contains Aubrey Manning's "Evolution of Behavior"; Richard E. Whalen's "The Concept of Instinct"; W. R. A. Muntz's "Sensory Processes and Behavior"; J. A. Deutsch's "Appetite Motivation"; Norman M. Weinberger's "Attentive Processes"; E. Roy John's "Brain Mechanisms of Memory"; and Marcel Kinsbourne's "Cognitive Deficit: Experimental Analysis (deals with deficit from brain damage).
Chapters on spine, peripheral nerve, and cerebral disoders, electrical burning of the head with & without cerebral symptoms, death via electricity. Panse was to become Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical Academy of Düsseldorf, publishing in 1964 an important historically oriented world survey of psychiatric hospitals.
Peters was with the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Psychiatrie in Munich.
Not in OCLC. Pick was from 1886 professor of psychaitry at the (German) University of Prague. He made many important neurological discoveries, especially regarding aphasia, for which see GM & Haymaker, pp. 358-62.
The major British work on the subject, the original 1942 edition of which was largely based on the author's wartime neurosurgical experience. The fourth edition, completely rewritten, is the final state of the text.
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