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COOKE, John (1756 – 1838)

COOKE, John (1756 – 1838)

1756 – 1838

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Engraver William Holl · jnorman.com · Public domain

1820 CE–1823 CE

#4519.2

A treatise on nervous diseases.

“The earliest separate work on clinical neurology” (McHenry). Includes the Croonian lecture (1819) on apoplexy, and sections on palsy and epilepsy. The work includes the first history of neurological thought.