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Volume 13 deals entirely with the comparative neurology of hearing, vision, and vocalization.
Published in 14 volumes from 1857 to 1881 Edward's great work on comparative neurology is virtually never found complete. All the volumes are scarce — OCLC records only volume 11.
Heirs of Hippocrates 2037 (German edition): Erb "pioneered in the use of electricity in the diagnosis and treatment of nevous disorders. This work on electrotherapy contains first descriptions of several nervous disorders and was writen while Erb was professor of neurology at the University of Heidelberg." Professor of Neurology at Heidelberg, Erb pioneered the use of electrotherapy and gave the original descriptions of a number of nervous disorders, especially the muscular dystrophies.
Norman Catalog #725 & #726; GM 4929; Heirs of Hippocrates 1268.
GM 4929. The first modern textbook of psychiatry and the model for all later psychiatric texts. Esquirol emphasized the importance of observation and good record-keeping; deprecated superstition and speculation; distinguished hallucinations from illusions, associating only the former with mental illness; and emphasized the role of environmental and age factors as precipitants of mental disease. Pinel's successor at Salpêtriere, Esquirol was among the first to insist that the criminally insane should be treated as suffering from a disease.
Blake p. 141; Wellcome III p. 2; Hirsch II, p. 322. Best-known for his works on syphilis the French physician and surgeon Fabre wrote a number of works on medicine, syphilis, and physiology.
University of Paris medical thesis. Probably the first work on psychoendocrinology.
Contribution to embryology by the great French scientist better known for his work contra narrow cerebral localization (he singlehandedly destroyed the respectability of phrenology as a serious scientific endeavor).
Haymaker & Schiller, pages 116-119. The great study of cerbral blood supply and arterial infarctions by the leading expert of the time. Foix and his colleagues established histologically in 1921 in the substantia nigra the lesions considered specific for Parkinsonism.
Text in Rumanian and French with conclusions in Rumanian, French, and English. "Continuation de la revue générale sur la litterature hypophysaire," p. [47]-66 supplements D. Popescu's Actions de l'hypophyse 1934. 50 page bibliography with 1519 items at the end.
OCLC records 5 copies, 3 in the USA: NLM; UCLA; Center for Res Libr. A second and final edition appeared in 1917. Gaucher was clinical professeor of skin diseases and syphilology at the Paris Faculty of Medicine. See GM 3127 & 3769 for his 1882 thesis on epithelioma, which described "Gaucher's disease." Translated in 1910 by Charles Frederic Marshall (with other material) as Diseases of the Skin, including Radiotherapy and Radiumtherapy.
GM 6580.
"Van Gehuchten's work on the structure of nerve cells, and his promulgation of the theory of dynamic polarization i 1891, helped to estagblish the neuron doctrine. … His early work had laid the foundations for his first textbook [this book] …, which went into several editions. The second edition, published in 1897, ranks with the greatest anatomic works of our time …. [and] had a lasting influence on neurological teaching and research in other countries" [Haymaker & Schiller Founders of Neurology 2nd edition pp. 120-123].
"Van Gehuchten's work on the structure of nerve cells, and his promulgation of the theory of dynamic polarization i 1891, helped to establish the neuron doctrine. … His early work had laid the foundations for his first textbook [this book] …, which went into several editions. The second edition, published in 1897, ranks with the greatest anatomic works of our time …. [and] had a lasting influence on neurological teaching and research in other countries" [Haymaker & Schiller Founders of Neurology 2nd edition pp. 120-123].
Gilis was Professor of Anatomy in the Montpelier Faculty of Medicine.
Contains sections on the physiological conditions of mentation; unconscious muscular movements; muscular sensation; aberations of the sexual instinct.
Both authors were on the medical faculty of the University of Montpellier. Grasset published a number of significant books in clinical neurology.
A massive treatise on clinical neurology that saw its 4th and final edition in 1894 (written with Georges Rauzier). A Montpellier physician, Grasset received his doctorate there in 1873, became agrégé in 1875, and in 1881 professor of therapy. He held the chair of clinical medicine from 1886 to 1909 and the chair of general pathology from 1909 until his retirement in 1915. Grasset's particular interest was in diseases of the nervous system, particularly the brain and spinal marrow. Grasset also published books in psychology, psychiatry, forensic psychology, and spiritism.
Guillain was clinical professor of nervous diseases at the Paris Faculty of Medicine. Bertrand was head of the laboratory of pathological anatomy at the clinic.
Blake p. 202; Wellcome III, p. 232; Heirs to Hippocrates #709. Pages 373-396 contain Jean Astruc's (1684-1766) "Memoire sur la cause de la digestion des alimens.""Hecquet, a native of Abbeville in Picardy, graduated in medicine at Reims in 1684. He was physician at Port Royal for a number of years and moved to Paris in 1684. . . . He taught at Paris for a number of years and was made physician to the Charité in 1710. Hecquet was a member of the Iatrophysical School . . . and was an ardent defender of the mechanical theory of digestion, which he expounds upon in the present work. The treatise became quite popular so Hecquet expanded it in 1730 and another editon appeared in 1747, after his death" [Heirs 709].
Blake p. 202; Wellcome III, p. 232; Heirs to Hippocrates #709 (1st edition). Vastly enlarged from the first edition.
OCLC records 8 copies. A French child care manual. The author was a pediatrician in Boulogne-sur-Seine, a town about 5 miles SW of Paris.
The 1780 first edition was edited by Hévin from manuscripts of J[ean]-F[rançois] Simon [died 1770]. This second and the 1793 third edition were both substantially enlarged by and published under the name Hévin's name.
Not in Wellcome. OCLC records 9 copies. Latin and French translation of De aere, aquis et locis.
Norman Catalog 1144; GM 4969.1; Diamond 17.5; Lane, pp. 99-185 and 257-286. In this first report Itard was optimistic about the feral child's prospects for language acquisition and socialization. In his 1807 second report his conclusions were much more pessimistic, as even after a number of years of intensive education the boy had been unable to learn to speak.Student of Pinel and one of the first otologists, Itard took charge of the wild boy of Averyon in an attempt to teach him language and social mores. "Itard's methods, described in his reports of 1801 and 1807, were based upon the philosopher Condillac's analytical approach to the acquisition of knowledge, which had been used with success in the teaching of deaf-mutes. However, in adapting this approach to the needs of his extraordinary pupil, Itard created an entirely new system of pedagogy" [Norman]. "It was Itard who first broke with traditional subject-matter instruction and implemented the education of the individual child through interaction with a carefully-prepared environment. It was Itard who first called for a scientific pedagogy based on philosophy and medicine, employing the technique of observation … It was Itard who spent long hours watching for the spontaneous expressions of his pupil in nature as in society, and he who, following the precepts of mental medicine, tailored the child's environment to accomodate and shape his needs. And it was Itard who took Condillac's model of the development of the intellect and first created a program of sensory education" [Lane When the Mind Hears, p. 283, quoted in the Norman Catalog]. "Itard's pedagogical methods were adopted by his student Edouard Séguin who applied them successfully to educating the mentally retarded, and by Maria Montessori, who applied them to childhood education in general" [Norman].
Chapters on consciousness, memory, perception, instincts.
Wellcome III, p 440 (this edition); Hirsch III, p. 593. The final edition of an influential period mechanist physiology and physiological psychology. Lamy was a member of the Paris Faculty of Medicine. The first part deals with sensation and the second with the passions.
Study of hermaphroditism in art with pages 129-177 devoted to Michelangelo.
One of the great French manuals of neuro-ophthalmological pathology. Lapersonne was one of the leading French ophthalmologists.
Professor of General Physiology at the Sorbonne, Lapicque contributed to the development of neurology and electrophysiology through his research on nerve cells. He is best known for his discovery of chronaxy, the minimum time over which an electric current double the strength of the rheobase needs to be applied in order to stimulate a muscle fiber or nerve cell. Lapicque coined the terms "chronaxy" and "rheobase" in 1909.
The offprints are (first three from the Journal of Physiology): "Neuro-Muscular Isochronism and Chronological Theory of Curarization" (81 #1, 1934, inscribed); "Alpha and Gamma Curves in Slow Muscles" (78 #4, 1933); "Retrograde Polarization, a Theory of Systematic Errors in Measurements of Muscular Chronaxie through Ringer's Fluid or with Large Electrodes"; "Physiologie générale du système nerveux" (Dumas' Nouveau traité de psychologie, chapter 4, 1930, inscribed); "Notice sur les titres et travaux scientifiques de M. Louis Lapicque" (Paris: Imprimerie de la Cour d'Appel, 1928, inscribed, contains: "La chronaxie," "Détermination de l'éxcitabilité en fonction du temps," and "Théorie du système nerveux").Professor of General Physiology at the Sorbonne, Lapicque conributed to the development of neurology and electrophysiology through his research on nerve cells.
OCLC records copies only at Countway & NLM. Paris Faculty of Medicine thesis.
OLCL locates only 1 copy, in the German National Library.
9 lines plus heading & salutation. In French with the typed closing in English. Lhermitte writes that he has received Brown's book "Jargonaphasia," which he calls remarkable. He intends to read it between Christmas and New Year and will praise it in the Revue Neurologique. He goes to write that that he thinks that he was the first to use the term "phonémique," but that Brown, who knows everything about the history of aphasia, can correct him if he's wrong.
The standard French medical dictionary throughout the 19th century. The Littré edition was first published in 1855 as the 10th revision of Nysten's Dictionnaire de médecine; the Nysten editions themselves being revisions of a work first published by Joseph Capuron in 1806.
A well-written account of the history of gastric secretion and digestion from the days of Galen to Pavlov.
OCLC records only 5 copies: 2 in France and in North America NLM, Univ Montreal, & Univ Illinois at Chicago.
Reprints in full with annotation Lisset Benancio's 1553 Declaration des abuz et tromperies que font les apothicaires.
Macé was professeur d'histoire naturelle médicale a la Faculté de Médecine de Nancy.
Haymaker & Schiller Founders of Neurology, pp. 476-79; McHenry Garrison's History of Neurology, p. 296; DSB IX: 108-9. Contains 48 clinical papers, including many for which Marie is most famous. In addition to the three papers explicitly mentioned in the title, contains the following sections: Encephale (12 papers); Infections et maladies nerveuses (7, including 3 on epilepsy); maladies de la moelle (17); Varia (7). The first volume appeared in 1926.An intern to Broca and Charcot, Marie in 1888 became physician to the Paris Hospitals, with the title agrégé bestowed on him the next year. With Brissaud he founded in 1893 the Revue Neurologique and in 1899 the Société de Neurologique de Paris. In 1907 he became professor of pathological anatomy at the University of Paris, and in 1917 succeeded Déjèrine as professor of clinical neurology (Charcot had been the first occupant of the chair). See the half-dozen citations of his publications in GM-5. Marie "gave original descriptions of hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy, achondroplasia, and craniocleidodysostosis and, in 1886 with Charcot, described what is now known as hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy (peroneal muscular atrophy or Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease). In 1885, he had described acromegaly, and noted its association with pituitary tumor. In 1893 he identified the hereditary ataxia now named for him and later described ankylosing spondylitis" [Pryse-Phillips Companion to Clinical Neurology, 2nd ed., OUP, 2003].
Hirsch IV, page 167; not in Wellcome, Waller, or Pauly. OCLC lists 12 copies: Stanford, Yale (2), Iowa, Kentucky, Louisville, Countway, Welch, NLM, Texas, William & Mary, and Univ of Newcastle. Matthey was a Geneva physician who received his medical doctorate in Paris in 1802 and authored a number of medical treatises, this being his only substantial work psychiatric work.
Contains Mayor's "Médications circulatoires"; Paul Carnot's "Médications hématiques"; J. Grasset & L. Rimbaud's "Médications des troubles de la sensibilité"; and Georges Guillain's "Médications des troubles de la motilité."
OCLC records six copies (in the USA only Countway & NLM).
Paris Faculty of Medicine doctoral dissertation.
13 papers in French and 3 in English.
Napoleon III's pharmacist and professor at the Paris Faculty of Medicine, Mialhe discovered in 1845 the diastatic agent in saliva, which he named ptyalin, after the Greek word for saliva. An early contribution to medical chemistry and nutrition, the present work discusses the work, among others, of Johannes Müller and Claude Bernard. Contains chapters on oxidation & nutriont; absorption; absorption of medical agents & toxicity; poisons; phamaceutical & therapeutic studies of the principal forms of medications; special medications.
Contains 18 papers including E. D. Adrians. "Des réactions électriques du système olfactif"; Ragnar Granit's "Interactions des processus neuro-musculaires dans le tonus isométrique de posture"; and Bernard Katz's "Caractère discontinu de la libération d'acétylcholine dans la plaque motrice."
OCLC locates copies only at NY Acad Med and Coll Phys & Surgeons of Phila.
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