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Historical Bibliography Updated: July 27, 2018

On railway and other injuries of the nervous system.

Publication Details

London: Walton & Maberly, 1866 CE.

The first book to discuss the injuries now widely known as whiplash, which first appeared as the by-product of the increased speed of railway travel. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

Catalog MetadataReference Information
Entry Number#4538.1
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/399
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLon-railway-and-other-injuries-of-the-nervous-system

Geographic Context

Publication place: London