MITCHELL, Silas Weir (1829 – 1914)
1829 – 1914
15 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1860 CE
#5888
On the production of cataract in frogs by the administration of sugar.
1860 CE
#2104
Researches upon the venom of the rattlesnake.
See No. 2106.
1864 CE
#2167
Gunshot wounds and other injuries of nerves.
Mitchell, Morehouse, and Keen were army surgeons during the American Civil War; their book was the first exhaustive study of the traumatic neuroses. Includes the first description of ascending neuritis, and also of th…
1869 CE
#1404
Researches on the physiology of the cerebellum.
Mitchell, leading American neurologist of his time, performed over 350 experiments upon the cerebellum. He emphasized its co-ordinating function, first postulated by Flourens, and he proposed his “augmentor&rdqu…
1872 CE
#2706
Clinical lecture on certain painful affections of the feet.
Mitchell suggested the name “erythromelalgia” for this condition, which is also known as “Weir Mitchell’s disease”. He records four earlier writers on the subject, the first being Graves …
1874 CE
#4551
Headaches, from heat-stroke, from fevers, after meningitis, from overuse of brain, from eyestrain.
Mitchell drew attention to the importance of eyestrain as a cause of headache.
1874 CE
#4552
Post-paralytic chorea.
First description.
1875 CE
#4553
On rest in the treatment of nervous disease.
First account of the “Weir Mitchell treatment”.
1877 CE
#4554
Fat and blood and how to make them.
Includes full account of Weir Mitchell’s rest cure for nervous disorders.
1877 CE
#4555
The relation of pain to weather, being a study of the natural history of a case of traumatic neuralgia.
First study of the subject.
1886 CE
#1367
Physiological studies of the knee-jerk.
Demonstration that the knee-jerk can be reinforced by sensory stimulation.
1886 CE
#2106
Researches upon the venoms of poisonous serpents.
Mitchell (see also No. 2104) and Reichert showed that snake venom is protein, and demonstrated the presence of toxic albumins. Mitchell was one of the first to investigate snake venoms.
1892 CE
#2682.5
The early history of instrumental precision in medicine.
1941 CE
#13889
Library of Dr. S. Weir Mitchell author of Hugh Wynne. Books autographs, prints, and historical relics. To be sold at unrestricted public sale on Monday, May 19th, 1941.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
2006 CE
#11650
The neurologic content of S. Weir Mitchell’s fiction.
Digital facsimile from semanticscholar.org at this link.