| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 324 pages) |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; References; Chapter 1 Before Willis; Gilbertus ANGLICUS; Bartholomaeus ANGLICUS; John of GADDESDEN; John de MIRFIELD; John of ARDENNE; Philip BARROUGH; Robert PEMMELL; References; Chapter 2 Dr Thomas Willis: The Founder of Neurology; The Early Years; The house where he was born; His education; The English Civil War; Oxford Medical Practice; The Case of Anne Green; Willis's Children; The Restoration; London Medical Practice; Personality; Books; Neurological Research; The brain; The circle of Willis and cerebral circulation |
|
The spinal cordCranial nerves; Conclusion; References; Chapter 3 The Seventeenth Century; The Breakthrough of Science; William HARVEY; Francis GLISSON; Sir William PETTY; Thomas SYDENHAM; Sir Robert BOYLE; Thomas MILLINGTON; Richard LOWER; John LOCKE; Sir Christopher WREN; Robert HOOKE; Humphrey RIDLEY; References; Chapter 4 The Eighteenth Century; The Age of Enlightenment; Stephen HALES; The MONROS: primus, secundus, tertius; William HEBERDEN; William CULLEN; John FOTHERGILL; Robert WHYTT; John HUNTER; Erasmus DARWIN; William Cumberland CRUIKSHANK; References |
|
Chapter 5 The First Half of the Nineteenth CenturyBefore the National Hospital; James PARKINSON; John COOKE; Thomas YOUNG; Sir Charles BELL; Richard BRIGHT; Marshall HALL; Robert James GRAVES; Robert Bentley TODD; References; Chapter 6 The National Hospital, Queen Square Physicians; Physicians; A Global Centre for Neurology; Sir Edward SIEVEKING; Charles RADCLIFFE; Jabez Spence RAMSKILL; Sir John Russell REYNOLDS; Thomas BUZZARD; John HUGHLINGS JACKSON; Henry Charlton BASTIAN; Sir William GOWERS; Sir James RISIEN RUSSELL; William ALDREN TURNER; James COLLIER; Sir Edward Farquar BUZZARD |
|
Sir Thomas GRAINGER STEWARTGeorge RIDDOCH; Neurosurgeon; Sir Charles BALLANCE; ENT Surgeon; Sir Felix SEMON; References; Chapter 7 The Latter Part of the Nineteenth Century; Further Neurological Discoveries; Thomas LAYCOCK; Charles Edouard BROWN-SÉQUARD; John William OGLE; Sir Samuel WILKS; Sir William BROADBENT; Sir David FERRIER; Sir William OSLER; Sir James PURVES-STEWART; Robert FOSTER KENNEDY; References; Chapter 8 The Twentieth Century; The Development of Neurology; The Association of British Neurologists (ABN); Sir Henry HEAD; Wilfred HARRIS; Sir Gordon HOLMES |
|
Sir Samuel Alexander KINNIER WILSONSir Francis WALSHE; William John ADIE; Sir Charles SYMONDS; Lord BRAIN; Edward Arnold CARMICHAEL; Macdonald CRITCHLEY; Derek DENNY-BROWN; Swithin MEADOWS; Henry MILLER; References; Chapter 9 Neurosurgery; Society of British Neurological Surgeons; Sir William MACEWEN; Sir Rickman GODLEE; Sir Victor HORSLEY; Sir Geoffrey JEFFERSON; Sir Hugh CAIRNS; Bryan JENNETT; Head Injuries; Richard WISEMAN; James YONGE; Sir Percival POTT; Benjamin BELL; John ABERNETHY; Sir Astley COOPER; George James GUTHRIE; References; Chapter 10 Paediatric Neurology |
| Summary |
Diseases of the nervous system are a relatively small but vitally important part of medicine. There was no scientific basis for diagnosis or treatment until the seventeenth century when Dr Thomas Willis (1621-1675) and his team tackled anatomy by dissection of the nervous system, physiology by animal experiments and pathology by post-mortem analysis. It was Willis who first used the word "neurology" and his team, who were among the founders of the Royal Society, included Christopher Wren who, besides being famous as an architect of London's churches, drew the first modern diagram of the human |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Neurology -- Great Britain -- History
|
|
Neurologists -- Great Britain -- History
|
|
Neurology -- history
|
|
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Nervous System (incl. Brain)
|
|
MEDICAL -- Neurology.
|
|
Neurologists
|
|
Neurology
|
| SUBJECT |
United Kingdom https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113 |
| Subject |
Great Britain
|
| Genre/Form |
History
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
1848166699 |
|
9781848166691 |
|
