Title Fragments of neurological history / John M.S. Pearce

Published London : Imperial College Press ; River Edge, NJ : Distributed by World Scientific Pub., ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 633 pages) : illustrations, portraits Contents Anatomical and neurophysiological phenomena. 1. Andreas Vesalius: the origins of anatomy -- 2. The localisation of function: early neuroanatomy and neurophysiology -- 3. Convolutions and asymmetries of the brain -- 4. The fissure of Rolando -- 5. The fissure of Sylvius -- 6. Robert Whytt and the stretch reflex -- 7. Notes on the life and work of Marshall Hall -- 8. Erb, Westphal and the tendon reflexes -- 9. Lockhart Clarke's column -- 10. The Schwann cell -- 11. Wallerian degeneration -- 12. Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow and myelin -- 13. Remak, father and son -- Aspects of cerebral disorders. 14. Aphasia or aphemia -- 15. Early concepts of aphasia; the Broca-Dax controversy -- 16. Development of concepts of aphasia -- 17. Aphasia and Wernicke's arc -- 18. Paul Broca and aphasia -- 19. Von Monakow and diaschisis -- 20. Gerstmann's syndrome -- 21. Early descriptions of sleep paralysis -- 22. Cobb's views on functional illness -- Dementias. 23. Alzheimer's disease -- 24. Pick's disease -- 25. Binswanger's "encephalitis subcorticalis chronica progressiva" -- 26. Alois Alzheimer on Binswanger's disease -- 27. Huntington's chorea -- Headaches. 28. Edward Liveing's nerve storms in migraine -- 29. Historical aspects of migraine -- 30. Cervicogenic headache: an early description -- 31. Cluster headache -- 32. Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond -- 33. Hutchinson: an early description of cranial arteritis -- 34. Samuel-Auguste Tissot and migraine -- 35. Nicolaus Petreus Tulpius on headaches -- 36. Gerhard van Swieten and episodic cluster headache -- Epilepsy and related disorders. 37. Early accounts of epilepsy -- 38. Sir Victor Horsley: surgery for epilepsy -- 39. Robert Bentley Todd and Todd's paralysis -- 40. West's syndrome: hypsarrhythmic infantile spasms -- Cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus. 41. Lumbar puncture -- 42. The cerebral ventricles: seat of the soul -- 43. Early treatment of hydrocephalus -- 44. Domenico Cotugno, C.S.F., and the origins of sciatica -- Strokes and vascular diseases. 45. Dechambre and lacunes -- 46. Dejerine and Roussy: the thalamic syndrome -- 47. Brown-Séquard: description of cerebellar haemorrhage; contributions to endocrinology -- 48. The circle of Willis -- 49. Wallenberg's syndrome -- 50. Raynaud's phenomenon -- Ocular disorders. 51. Duane's syndrome -- 52. The Marcus Gunn pupil -- 53. A note on heterochromia iridis -- 54. The Holmes-Adie tonic pupil and Hughlings Jackson -- 55. Claude Bernard-Horner's syndrome and Edward Selleck Hare -- Cranial nerve disorders. 56. Lucja Frey and the "auriculotemporal syndrome" -- 57. Melkersson's syndrome -- 58. Menière's disease -- 59. Bell's or Friedreich's palsy -- 60. Sir Charles Bell: a biographical note -- 61. John Locke and the trigeminal neuralgia of the Countess of Northumberland -- Diseases of the spine, the spinal cord, and radiculopathies. 62. Subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord -- 63. Multiple sclerosis: some British contributions 64. Quadruplegia and cervical dislocation in the Edwin Smith papyrus -- 65. Samuel Richardson and Forestier's disease -- 66. Sir William Osler on tabes dorsalis (locomotor ataxia) -- 67. Robert Bentley Todd and locomotor ataxia -- 68. Lathyrism -- Neuralgias and polyneuropathies. 69. Octave Landry and the Guillain-Barré-Strohl syndrome -- 70. Silas Weir Mitchell and causalgia -- 71. Bontius and Tulp on beriberi polyneuritis -- 72. Howard Henry Tooth and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease -- 73. Robert Graves and multiple neuritis -- 74. Sir Henry Head: a note on herpes zoster -- Physical signs. 75. A brief history of the reflex hammer -- 76. A brief history of the tuning fork -- 77. Babinski's sign -- 78. Cheyne-Stokes respiration -- 79. Oppenheim's sign -- 80. J.-J. Forst and Lasègue's sign -- 81. Kernig and Brudzinski -- 82. Lhermitte's sign -- 83. Prévost's sign or Vulpian's law: conjugate deviation of the eyes -- 84. Romberg's sign -- 85. Hoffmann and Tinel's sign of formication -- 86. Gowers' sign -- Genetic, developmental and congenital disorders. 87. Down's syndrome -- 88. Tay-Sachs disease -- 89. Little's disease -- 90. Bourneville's tuberous sclerosis: "When the cat is away..." -- 91. Arnold Chiari, or Cruveilhier-Cleland-Chiari malformation -- Movement disorders. 92. Botulinum toxin -- 93. Wilson's disease -- 94. Athetosis and William Alexander Hammond, a founder of American neurology -- 95. Parkinson's disease -- 96. The Lewy body -- 97. The subthalamic nucleus and Jules Bernard Luys -- 98. Baron Constantin von Economo's encephalitis lethargica -- 99. Thomas Sydenham and Richard Bright on chorea -- 100. Samuel Jones Gee and stereotypic movements caused by apomorphia -- 101. Gilles de la Tourette syndrome -- 102. Romberg on Ekbom's restless legs syndrome -- Neuromuscular diseases. 103. Myasthenia gravis -- 104. Some contributions of Duchenne de Boulogne -- 105. Steinert's disease: dystrophia myotonica -- 106. Notes on tetanus: Hippocrates and Aretaeus -- Miscellaneous. 107. The Hippocratic oath -- 108. The caduceus and the Aesculapian staff -- 109. Galen of Pergamum: neurological notes -- 110. Walter Brown: early intravenous transfusion -- 111. Ammon's horn and the hippocampus -- 112. Clinical thermometers -- 113. Acromegaly (Pierre Marie's disease) -- 114. Who discovered insulin? -- 115. Who discovered aspirin? -- 116. Bromides in epilepsy -- 117. Harvey Cushing -- 118. Armand Trousseau, physician and neurologist -- 119. Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov and phagocytes -- 120. Sir James Paget -- 121. John and James Parkinson on appendicitis -- 122. The origins of syphilis -- 123. Charcot joints -- 124. Francis Bacon: father of the scientific experiment -- 125. Sir Charles Symonds -- 126. Derek Denny-Brown -- Illnesses of the famous, and some medical truants. 127. Peter Mark Roget and his thesaurus -- 128. Chekhov: playwright and physician -- 129. William Brownrigg: a doctor's adventures with physics 130. The emperor with the shaking head: Claudius' movement disorder -- 131. The madness of King George III -- 132. Johann Jakob Wepfer on cerebral haemorrhage, with a note on the apoplexy of Malpighi -- 133. Dr Samuel Johnson: a victim of Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome -- 134. Freud's migraine, and contributions to neurology -- 135. Wegener's granulomatosis Summary This highly interesting collection of historical articles started as a series of "space-fillers", the journalist's device to mitigate the harshness of white space at the end of scientific papers. The author has expanded these short essays and included several additional articles and biographical reviews. He has also incorporated some longer, more discursive essays, which should be relevant to neurologists, physicians and those working in internal medicine and psychiatry. The reader attracted to medical and neurological history should find much of interest in these diverse topics Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Neurology -- History Neurology -- Anecdotes Eponyms. Neurology -- history -- Anecdotes Neurology -- history -- Collected Works Eponyms -- Anecdotes Eponyms -- Collected Works Nervous System Diseases -- history -- Anecdotes Nervous System Diseases -- history -- Collected Works Eponyms HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Nervous System (incl. Brain) MEDICAL -- Neurology. Eponyms Neurology Genre/Form Anecdotes History Anecdotes. Anecdotes. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781860949364 1860949363 1281866776 9781281866776

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