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GM 5597; Waller 6830; Hears of Hippocrates #1697. Three additional volumes were issued. One of the finest French surgeons, Nélaton "invented a number of surgical instruments, among them a porcelein-tipped bullet probe and a flexible rubber catheter which bears his name" [Heirs #1697]. His 5-volume Elémens de pathologie chirurgicale (1844-1859) is his greatest work, in which he reported all his major discoveries and inventions. Volume 2, page 46 contains the description of "Nélaton's tumor" of bone, and page 441 "Nélaton's line."
OCLC records only two copies, at NY Academy of Medicine and Wellcome.
The fifth volume in a series of pediatric texts by Nobècourt on specialized subject areas, all with the general title "Clinique médical des enfants."
OCLC records four copies: NY Public; Univ of Ottawa; Glasgow Univ; Indiana Univ. University of Lyon medical thesis.
A medical study of Pascal's ophthalmic headaches.
Medical thesis presented to the Paris Faculty of Medicine.
OCLC locates 6 copies, only 2 in the US: Univ of Illinois at Chicago and NLM.
Influenced by Locke and Condillac, Pinel co-ordinated observation and experiment in his nosological system. "As a nosologist, Pinel wanted to take advantage of the progress made in his own days by the natural sciences, physics, chemistry, and botany … In brief, he wanted medicine to become a branch of natural history. [Thus] it was he, the the alienist, who anticipated the major role we ascribe today to the basic sciences in our curriculum and training." [Riese, The Legacy of Philippe Pinel. NY: 1969]."A new advance [in nosology], however, began to take place, especially in France, at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century, and this was possible through the important additions to knowledge from a deep study of pathological anatomy. A pioneer in this advance was Philippe Pinel (1755-1826) in his Nosograpie philosophique (1802). His classification of inflammations (phlegmasiae) was particularly important. He recognized five orders of phlegmasiae according as they affected 1) the skin, 2) the mucous membranes, 3) the serous membranes, 4) the cellular tissue and parenchymatous organs; 5) the muscular, fibrous, or synovial tissue" [Bulloch's History of Bacteriology, pp. 155-156; also see p. 390].
Wellcome IV p. 455. First combined edition with added material of Quesnay's two books on blood-letting, originally published in 1731 and 1736. A distinguished French surgeon and advocate for surgeons at a time when they were in very low repute in France and constantly quarreling with physicians, Quesnay is much better known for founding the Physiocrat theory in economics, though he did not begin writing on economic and agricultural topics until 1756.
"Raspail held a prominent place in the development of science in the nineteenth century. In organic chemistry he specified the properties of numerous substances . . . [and he] belonged to a group of biologists who prepared the way for the cell theory. Although it would be too strong to call him the creator of the modern concept of the cell, the definitions and descriptions he gave of the cell are truly remarkable. On the basis of precise observations he described the general characteristics of the plant cell long before Mohl . . . . As an expert microscopist, Raspail not only set forth theoretical considerations of great importance but also made many significant observations. . . . Scientists now agree that he was one of the founders of cytochemistry. As he himself put it, he brought chemical analysis under the microscope. . . . [Raspail] constructed a system of general pathology, which he set forth in his voluminous work on general health and illness . . . [in which] he provided valuable new data on the causes of various diseases. For example, he determined the agent of scabies, the itch mite . . . Raspail is therefore rightly considered one of the founders of parasitology" [DSB XI: 300-01].
OCLC locates only 1 copy, at the University of Utrecht. Reboul-Lachaux was a French physician who served at the Asylum of the Seine and at the Marseille hospital. His medical thesis under Henri Claude, the present monograph investigates reflex response of the solar plexus (the most richly ganglioned part of the autonomic nervous system in the epigastral region) and relates to one of two conditions named after Claude: Claude hyperkinesis (where painful stimuli applied to paretic muscles excite reflex flexion).
OCLC locates only 4 copies: Univ. of Michigan, College of Physicians of Phila, SCDM—Univ. Paris VI, Wellcome.
The first part (xii+207pp.) appeared in 1828; the second part (pages 209-361) adds chapters on homicidal monomania, suicide, the incubation of madness, an examination of Broussais' doctrine regarding moral liberty, an examination of a number of criminal trials in which the insanity defense was invoked.A young lawyer at the royal court of Paris, Regnault here attacked the monomania doctrine. "He produced a broad historical survey of medical opinion on insanity, beginning with Boerhaave and running through Pinel and Esquirol, which revealed that the literature contained nothing but a mass of contradictions abuot the nature and bodily locus of mental disease. … The medical community took Regnault's attack very seriously. His book was reviewed in virtually every Parisian medical journal, and the reviews … usually contained attempts at reasoned rebuttal and refutation" [Jan Goldstein, Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century, p. 185].
Contains W. Janowski's "Coma et Apoplexie"; J. Lévy- Valensi's "Céphalées"; Karl Petrén & Sven Invar's "Vertiges"; B.-J. Logre's "Pathologie du sommeil" [and] "Troubles psychique" (with Mlle. C. Pascal); Charles Foix & Henry Meige's Troubles du langage"; M. Klippel et al.'s "Troubles de la motilité"; L. Cornil et al.'s "Troubles de la tonicité"; H. Guilleminot & G. Bourguignon's "Troubles des réactions électriques"; Foix et al's "Troubles de la réflectivité"; Mme J. Dejerine & E. Gauckler's "Troubles de la sensibilité"; F. de Lapersonne & Velter's "Troubles sensoriels: appareil visuel"; A. Hautant's "Oreille interne"; J.-A. Sicard's "le liquide céphalo-rachidien."
Contains five sections by J. Tinel: "Affections traumatiques des nerfs" and "Sémiologie des nerfs péripheriques et des plexus" and "Syndromes radiculaires et radiculites" and "Polynévrites" and "Névralgies"; and M. Chiray & J. Pavel's "Syndromes neuro-végétatifs"; Jacques Parisot & Lucien Cornil's "Troubles vaso-noteurs"; G. Heuyer's "Troubles torphiques"; G. Marinesco's "Troubles trophiques (suite)"; J. Lévy-Valensi's "Troubles thermiques"; Viggo Christiansen's "Migraines"; M. Klippel & Mathieu-Pierre Weill's "Névroses dyskinésies"; and O. Crouzon's "Maladies familiales."
OCLC lists this only as a thesis with no locations.
Roussel's chef d'oeuvre, first published in 1775.
Bibliographs and abstracts all of Roussy's scientific writings.
OCLC locates one copy, at McGill.
Not in Parsifal-Charles. The Dream: 4,000 Years of Theory and Practice.
OCLC locates only one copy, at CISTI in Ontario. Santenoise was secretary-general of the Congress. Contains summaries and the extensive discussions of Hesnard's paper on psychoanalysis, André Thomas's on mental & circulatory difficulties associated with the neck, and Legrain's on the criminality of drug addicts. Also includes brief reports on neuropsychiatric topics by Laignel-Lavastine, Brissot, Legrand, Wimmer, and others.
GM (3rd edition) 2203; Blake p. 403; Heirs of Hippocrates #873; Zilboorg's History of Medical Psychology, pp. 305-307. A friend of Linnaeus, Sauvages was professor of medicine (and later of botany) at Montpellier. An important 18th century nosological treatise, which greatly influenced Linnaeus & Cullen.The botanist/physician Sauvages continued Sydenham's nosological work, first in his 1731 preliminary monograph, Traité des classes des maladies, and then in the present greatly enlarged and revised version with a long introduction and discussion about the principles of nosology and of classification in general. [Adapted from Karl Menninger's The Vital Balance (1963) pp. 431-3]. Sauvages describes ten classes of disease, the eighth being devoted to madness, which in turn he subdivided into four orders: errors of reason; the bizarre; deliria; anomalies. Sauvages placed the (in the 18th century) highly fashionable "vapors" under the fifth order of the sixth class. Heirs of Hippocrates notes that the Éloge at the beginning of the first volume is an informative presentation of Sauvage's life and achievements, and that the work is unique in that it served simultaneously as medical textbook and dictionary.
The first translation from Russian of the only collection of Sechenov's psychological writings. Includes the first translation of his important 1866 Refleksy golovnago mozga [Reflexes of the Brain] as well as three other papers: "A qui appartient le rôle de psychologique?"; "De la méthode psychologique"; and "Histoire de l'évolution psychique."Sechenov discovered the cerebral inhibition of spinal reflexes, which directly inspired Pavlov's work on conditioned reflexes. Pavlov called Sechenov "the father of Russian physiology."
Contains a glossary and 28 page bibliography.
Originally given as lectures at the École Pratique des Hautes Études that were subsequently published in the journals Encephale and Archives de Neurologie. The first of two books by Soury on the history of neurology, this is a detailed account, with extensive bibliographical citations, of the work on cerebral localization done since the publication of Fritsch and Hitzig's pathbreaking work in 1870. The section on Goltz, reprinted from Encephale, appeared as an 86 page pamphlet in 1886. The revised and corrected 1892 edition is the final state of the text. Pages 402-428 contain an appendix on "L'Épilepsie corticale: recherches expérimentales et anatomo-cliniques de l'école italienne," also with numerous citations and discussions of the original texts.Not a physician, Soury paid his way through school and was eventually awarded a doctorate of letters. He published a number of books in the late 1860s and 1870s on the history of Christianity. His first psychological book was an 1875 study of women (Portraits des femmes). In 1881 Morbid Psychology: Studies on Jesus and the Gospels was published in London — the only book of Soury's ever translated into English (French edition 1878). Taking up the study of psychology and neurology when he was 23 after discovering the exciting work being done at the Salpêtrière, Soury reached "those heights of scholarship that made him the first and to this day the greatest and most voluminous writer on the history of neurology" [Haymaker p. 274]. His massive 1899 treatise on the history of neuroscience, still the most extensive history up to the end of the 19th century, remains along with the present book a valuable contribution.
An important book by the leading French forensic physician of the late 19th century. The 1867 first edition is GM 1745.
An important historically detailed study of abortion by the doyen of mid- to late 19th century French forensic physicians.
OCLC records 9 copies of this revised edition but no earlier edition.
Thomas worked in Dejerine's laboratory and did significant work on the cerebellum.
Temkin. The Falling Sickness. p. 229-31; McHenry p. 136; Blake 1979 p. 454. Issued as the first part of the third volume of his collected works on nervous diseases, but the first volume published. "Tissot collected material for many years for his important treatise on nervous diseaes. His work is especially important because of his numerous condensations of previous literature and his precise references to many writers otherwise forgotten or overlooked. One of the most significant portions of his work is his monograph on epilepsy . . . Overall, Tissot's importance is due to his clear differentiation between diseases of the nervous systme and the pathology of other body systems, w hich laid the foundation for modern neurology" [Heirs of Hippocrates #980 [the complete Traité, 1778-1780 edition]."Tissot's Treatise on Epilepsy, published in 1770, is the first book on this subject to show all the characteristics of Enlightenment in medicine. Written in the French vernacular, it is at once learned, scientific, and readable. … Tissot is to be found on the side of those opposing old beliefs for which no adequate reason could be given" [Temkin. The Falling Sickness. p. 229].
Blake p. 454. So far as we can determine, this is the only edition.
See GM 175 for Topinard's important work on anthropology. After practicing medicine for many years he became curator of the musuem of the Société d'Anthropologie de Paris. "This work received first prize in an essay contest sponsored by the Académie Impériale de Médecine. From 252 case histories, including many of his own patients, Topinard describes the clinical signs and pathological changes, both gross and microscopic, in progressive degenerative changes in the cereburm, cerebellum, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves which result in essentially incurable changes in control of body motion and position. Changes due to tumors, alcoholism, syphilis, and those of unknown etiology are treated with remarkable accuracy, considering the date of the book" [Heirs of Hippocrates #1965]. Also contains chapters on hysteria and functional nerve disorders.
Recamier invented the speculum (see GM 6033).
Not in OCLC or NLM.
OCLC records copies only at the NY Acad of Med, Universities of British Columbia and Montreal, and the Bibliothèque National du Quebec. Vallée was Professor of Medicine at the University of Laval, Quebec. Chapters on Pasteur, the history of biology, Laênnec, medicine in the time of Molière.
Weinberg did important work on the organisms producing gas gangrene, greatly contributing to knowledge of pathogenic and nonpathogenic anaerobes. Weinberg identified Bacterium Welchii (the predominant organism of gas gangrene) as one of the first true extra-cellular toxins. See GM 2520 & 2521 for his 1915 & 1916 papers on the subject. His principal work on the subject was his 1918 book La gangrène gazeuse: bactériologie, reproduction expérimentale, sérothérapie.
A standard period work on rheumatism. Widal was a French bacteriologist and serologist; see Bulloch and numerous GM entries.
Zimmern was director of the Institut municipal d'Électro-Radiologie, with which Chavany was also associated. Chavany was also head of the clinic of the Paris Faculty of Medicine.Section 1: French Neuroscience and Medicine (A-D)
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