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Lists for hundreds of scientists their major contribution to physiology. Most of the entries with portraits.
GM 6529.2 An invaluable reference source for the history of medicine and psychiatry.
A detailed and bookish discussion of the mind-body relationship in 17th century Europe.
Facsimile reprint of the London 1842 edition. Mayo's final neurological work with sections on sensation & voluntary motion; functions of the cerebral organs; influence of the nerves on bodily functions; and perception.
Paris Faculty of Medicine doctoral dissertation.
Facsimile reprint of the original 1897 Stuttgart edition.
Wellcome IV, 245; Barbier Dictionnaires des ouvrages anonymes, 3rd. ed., II, 391 (attributing authorship to Normant, described as an "ancien aide de camp du Gen. Moreau." OCLC lists 7 libraries with copies, 4 in the USA: Minnesota, Chicago, Hopkins, & UCLA.The first book-length exposition of Gall's theories in French, preceded only by Charles de Villers' 82-page pamphlet issued in 1802 and entitled Lettre à Georges Cuvier … sur une nouvelle théorie du cerveau, par le docteur Gall … There were about 10 earlier works on Gall's ideas published in German and Dutch between 1802 and 1804. Apparently unknown to Hollander, despite his efforts to track down any text referring to Gall in his In Search of the Soul. Jean Victor Marie Moreau (1763-1813), to whom Normant was apparently an aide, was an important French general in the 1790s and under Napoleon.
Considered the father of experimental pharmacology, Magendie proved in a classic 1822 paper that in a spinal nerve the ventral root is motor and the dorsal root sensory in function.
Contains 22 papers including "On Stammering with Organs Other than Those of Speech"; "Sexual Hypochondriasis"; "Nervous Mimicry"; "The Contrast of Temperance with Abstinence"; "Errors in the Chronometry of Life"; "Use of the Will for Health"; "Anesthetics: the History of a Discovery"; "Theology and Science"; "The Contrast of Temperance with Abstinence"; "Spines Suspected of Deformity" "Obscure Cases of Caries of the Spine."
OCLC records 1 copy, at the University of Chicago. Contains papers by Morselli, Victor Bianchi, & Cerletti.
Essays on Purkyne and various aspects of his work by 25 authors. Entirely in Czech.
With a 300 page bibliography.
Volumes 2-4 edited by F. K. Studnicka; 7-9 by V. Kruta & Z. Hornof; 10 by M. Kudelka; 11 by J. Thon. Text in German or Czech, as originally published. About as close to a complete collection as one can hope to find these days for a set published in Prague from 1918 to 1987, the total being 13 volumes. OCLC lists only a handful of libraries with any volumes. The name by the way is pronounced phonetically in English as "Poorkeenya," in German "Purkynje," exactly as Purkyne himself phonetically spelled it.
A classic book that helped initiate the ongoing boom in neuroscience research and that set forth the program for much of the subsequent research. Contains sections on molecular biology; molecular biology of brain cells; neuronal physiology; brain correlates of functional behavioral states; and brain correlates of learning.
An important and widely influential book with sections on molecular biology; molecular biology of brain cells; neuronal physiology; brain correlates of functional behavioral states; and brain correlates of learning.
First published in English translation in 1937 as Volume 8, parts 1 & 2 of the Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society.
Also contains the autobiographies of Heinrich Braum, Salomon Henschen, Albert Peters, and Hermann Sahli. Excerpted from the 1922 edition of Cajal's Recuerdos de mi vida.
53 items bound together with typed front list of titles and authors, and rear typed list of authors with sequence number. Most in English or German, with a few in French. A gold mine of turn-of-the-19th-century publications on reflexes.Contains papers by Bechterew (3), Hermann Oppenheim (1), Pierre Marie (1), and three by Sherrington: with S. C. M. Sowton, "On Reflex Inhibition of the Knee Flexor" (Proceedings of the Royal Society, B, Vol. 84, 1911, pp. [201]-214); "Flexion-Reflex of the Limb, Crossed Extension-Reflex, and Reflex Stepping and Standing" (J. of Physiology Vol. XL, Nos. 1 & 2, April 26, 1910, pp. [3]+28-121+[3]); "On Plastic Tonus and Proprioceptive Reflexes" (Quarterly J. of Experimental Physiology Vol. 2 No. 2, pp. [109]-156). All three Sherrington papers are in the original printed wrappers.
Bibliographs and abstracts all of Roussy's scientific writings.
Pages 11-82 recount and summarize the historical literature on Tourette syndrome.
The last incarnation of Starr's lectures, preceded by printings in 1894 and 1898, respectively of about 75 and 81 pages. Presumably printed for the use of his students.
Without the first volume.
OCLC locates only 3 copies: University of Michigan, Northwestern University, and the University of Amsterdam. Contents: J. Ramsay Hunt "The Foundation and Early History of the American Neurological Association"; C. K. Mills "Some Recollections of the Early Meetings and Personnel of the American Neurological Association with a Glance at the Work of the Last Fifty Years"; T. H. Weisenberg "The Military History of the American Neurological Association"; Programs of the American Neurological Association; Jelliffe "Fifty years of American Neurology: Fragments of an Historical Retrospect"; Appendix: 1. History of Constitution and By-laws - 2. Bibliographies. Pages 47-261 containing biographies of the presidents and of all past & present members was almost certainly put together by Jelliffe. The bibliography (pp. 457-652) attempts to list all publications by present members, usually in chronological order under each name. An immensely useful book with much information not easily found elsewhere.
The first history of PTSD.
Contains chapters on the history of neurology and psychiatry, antisemitism, racial psychology, Maimonides, Palestinian colonization, and a review of Moses and Monotheism.
Contains Shepherd Ivory Franz's "On Some Functions of the Cerebral Occipital Lobes"; I. W. Blackburn's "A Note on Plasma Cells and Mast Cells"; Francis M. Barnes' "Errors in the Clinical Diagnosis of Mental Disorders Associated with Cerebral Syphilis"; Bernard Glueck's "A Contribution to the Catamnestic Study of the Juvenile Offender"; Gonzalo R. Lafora's "Histopathological Report of a Case of Poliomyelitis anterior epidemica", "Obscure Symptomatology with Tumors of the Fourth Ventricle", "On Special Connective-tissue Plaques of the Internal Surface of the dura mater Found in Connection with Hemorrhagic Pachymeningitis", and "On the Changes of the Nervous System in Pernicious Malaria and the Neurological Sequelae Resulting from Malarial Toxemia"; plus bibliography of staff publications from July 1, 1911 to June 30, 1912.
A valuable collection with useful short introductions to each text. First published in the Journal of Neurosurgery from 1962 to 1965 and then published in book form in 1965 by Johnson Reprint Corporation.
The historical notes with which each section begins virtually constitute a history of neurology.
Published posthumously. The second edition has a long chapter by Russell Brain on aphasia, apraxia, and agnosia.
31 papers by an all star cast including Gerald Edelman, John Z. Young, Brodal, Magoun, Sperry, Jasper, Luria.
GM-5 #1588.15 (original 1975 edition of the first volume). Volume 1 originally issued as a festschfrift for F. O. Schmitt with 31 first person accounts of their discoveries by an all star cast including Axelrod, Brodal, Cole, Denny-Brown, Eccles, Gerald Edelman, Granit, Jasper, Luria, Magoun, Sperry, John Z. Young. Volume 2 with 16 more accuonts by First-person accounts of their discoveries by Louis Sokoloff, William H. Oldendorf, Vittorio Erspamer, Eugene Roberts, Arvid Carlsson, Oleh Hornykiewicz, Mogens Schou, John W. Olney, Anford L. Palay, Wilfrid Rall, Masao Ito, Robert Galambos, Neal E. Miller, Karl Pribram, Viktor Hamburger.
GM-5 #1588.15 (original 1975 edition). Volume 1 originally issued as a festschfrift for F. O. Schmitt with 31 first person accounts of their discoveries by an all star cast including Axelrod, Brodal, Cole, Denny-Brown, Eccles, Gerald Edelman, Granit, Jasper, Luria, Magoun, Sperry, John Z. Young. Volume 2 with 16 more accuonts by Arvid Carlsson, Palay, Neal Miller, Karl Pribram, Mogens Schou, Sokoloff, et al.
GM-5 #1588.7 Classic discussion of localization issued in the 19th century with an important account of Herbert Spencer's influence on Hughlings Jackson.Section 1: History of Neuroscience (A-K)
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