Facets

1909 CE

#1436

Gehirn und Sympathicus.

First experimental studies on hypothalmic function

1969 CE

#10637

George III and the mad business.

1892 CE

#4579

Gesammelte Abhandlungen, edited by A. Westphal. 2 vols.

Westphal was Professor of Psychiatry at Berlin; at this time was common for physicians to practice both psychiatry and neurology. Vol. 1: psychiatry; Vol. 2: neurology.

1745 CE

#4616

Glömska af alla substantiva och i synnerhet namn.

Aphasia first described. Facsimile reproduction and English translation by H. R. Viets, Bull. Hist. Med., 1943, 13, 328-33.

1956 CE–1963 CE

#5019

Grosse Nervenärzte. 3 vols.

1894 CE–1900 CE

#4949

Grundriss der Psychiatrie in klinischen Vorlesungen.

Wernicke made valuable contributions to the subject of sensory aphasia, mind-blindness, and apraxia. He correlated all psychic action with the function of speech, each perversion being interpreted as showing a minus o…

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…

1976 CE

#11035

Hallucinogenic plants of North America.

1973 CE

#10735

Hallucinogens and Shamanism edited by Michael Harner.

Includes Harner's "The Role of Hallucinogenic Plants in European Witchcraft".

1876 CE–1878 CE

#4557

Handbuch der Krankheiten des Nervensystems.

Erb was Professor of Neurology at Heidelberg. He gave the original descriptions of several nervous disorders, especially the muscular dystrophies, and was a pioneer in the use of electrotherapy.

1935 CE–1937 CE

#4613

Handbuch der Neurologie. 17 vols. [in 18].

For its era, the definitive encyclopedia of neurology.

1842 CE–1853 CE

#607

Handwörterbuch der Physiologie … hrsg. von R. Wagner.

Wagner was professor at Göttingen. His literary output was enormous. In the above work he contributed the sections on sympathetic nerves, nerve-ganglia, and nerve-endings. This work contained 63 extensive review …

2012 CE

#6842

Headache: Through the centuries.

The most comprehensive history to date.

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.

1902 CE

#4589

Hémiasynergie, latéropulsion et myosis bulbaires avec hémianesthésie et hémiplégie croisées.

“Babinski-Nageotte syndrome”.

2003 CE

#10018

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome II, 3ème partie: La maladie sacrée. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Jacques Jouanna. (Collection des universités de France).

Until Hippocrates epilepsy was believed to be religious in origin; Hippocrates provided the first medical description of the disease.

1992 CE

#9618

Histoire de la psychanalyse de l'enfant.

English translation as A history of child psychoanalysis (London and New York: Routledge, 1998).

1905 CE

#1430

Histological studies on the localisation of cerebral function.

The precentral area of the cerebral cortex is known as “Campbell’s area”. Campbell and Brodmann were pioneers in the study of the architectonics of the cerebral cortex, or cerebral cytoarchitecture. …

1868 CE

#4698

Histologie de la sclérose en plaques.

An important description of multiple sclerosis. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

1904 CE

#4803

Histologische und histopathologische Arbeiten über die Grosshirnrinde. Vol. 1.

Pages 315-494 contain Nissl’s classic account of the histopathology of general paresis.

2007 CE

#7141

Historia de la psicofarmacologia. 3 vols.

English translation, edited by Edward F. Domino, as History of psychopharmacology. 4 vols. Arlington, MA: NPP Books, 2014.

1989 CE

#10757

Historia general de las drogas.

The following works were issued separately and added as appendices to later editions: El libro de los venenos (1990), Para una fenomenología de las drogas (1992) and Aprendiendo de las drogas (1995). English tr…

1971 CE

#1588.8

Historical aspects of cerebral anatomy.

A highly detailed, very technical, but well-documented study.

2000 CE

#14079

Historiografía de la psiquiatría española.

"This work contains the bibliographic references of 1,457 published studies (from 1859 to 1997) on the history of Spanish psychiatry in all its aspects: general and local overviews, biographies and pathobiographies, e…

2008 CE

#11544

History of cognitive neuroscience.

2010 CE

#11275

History of neurology (Vol. 95). Handbook of Clinical Neurology series). Edited by Stanley Finger, François Boller, and Kenneth L. Tyler.

2003 CE

#7839

History of the treatment of spinal cord injuries.

A history of the treatment and rehabilitation of spinal cord and cauda equina injuries.

1989 CE

#9805

Homicidal insanity, 1800-1985.

"Homicidal insanity has remained a vexation to both the psychiatric and legal professions despite the panorama of scientific and social change during the past 200 years. The predominant opinion today among psychiatris…

1938 CE

#4659.1

Human encephalitis caused by the virus of the Eastern variety of equine encephalomyelitis.

Isolation of the virus of Eastern equine encephalitis from man. With J. H. Dingle, S. Farber, and M. L. Connerley.

1918 CE

#5007

Hundert Jahre Psychiatrie.

English translation, New York, 1962.

1903 CE

#4953

Hygiene der Nerven und des Geistes im gesunden und kranken Zustande.

English translation, New York, 1907.

1903 CE

#5005.1

Hypnosis: Its history, practice and theory.

An unexcelled “scholarly, critical, and detailed analysis of hypnosis” (Bliss).

1908 CE

#7342

I ganglî cerebrospinali. Studi di istologia comparata e di istogenesi.

"Using comparative and developmental approaches he examined dorsal root ganglion cells in the embryos of 18 vertebrate species, and adults of 56 species—using a variety of histological stains, particularly those…

1995 CE

#8244

Ibn al-Jazzār on forgetfulness and its treatment. Critical edition of the Arabic text and the Hebrew translations with commentary and translation into English by Gerrit Bos.

1821 CE

#9700

Icones cerebri simiarum et quorundam mammalium rariorum.

"Although a few more reports were published furing the next hundred years [after Tyson] it was Tiedemann alone who gave a more detailed account, on monkeys, in his... Icones Simiarum.... In monkeys he found the brain …

1876 CE–1880 CE

#4558.1

Iconographie photographique de la Salpêtrière. Service de M. Charcot. 3 vols.

A photographic atlas devoted to cases of hysteria and epilepsy, with case histories; the third volume includes discussions of hypnotism, somnambulism and magnetism. Bourneville was Charcot’s assistant at the Sal…

1873 CE

#1406.01

Iconographie photographique des centres nerveux.

Contains 70 photographs of brain sections taken by Luys himself, with 64 lithographed schemas based on his drawings. Luys undertook this work when the evidence of his lithographs published in 1865 (No. 4012) was dispu…

1811 CE

#1254

Idea of a new anatomy of the brain.

Contains first reference to experimental work on the motor functions of the ventral spinal nerve-roots, without, however, establishing the sensory functions of the dorsal roots. This very rare privately printed pamphl…

1926 CE

#4607

Idiopathic narcolepsy: a disease sui generis; with remarks on the mechanism of sleep.

Adie’s description of narcolepsy is called “maladie d’Adie” by some French writers.

1891 CE

#1421

Il cervelletto. Nuovi studi di fisiologia normale e patologica.

Luciani succeeded in keeping dogs alive after total extirpation of the cerebellum, and initiated the modern study of cerebellar function. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1875 CE–1888 CE

#4067

Illustrations of clinical surgery. 2 vols.

Vol. 1 pp. 49-52: Hutchinson’s classic description of cheiropompholyx, dysidrosis (“Hutchinson’s disease”). The first description and illustration of sarcoidosis is on p. 42.

1810 CE

#4924.1

Illustrations of madness: exhibiting a singular case of insanity… with a description of the tortures experienced by bomb-bursting, lobster-cracking and lengthening the brain.

The first medical book devoted to a single case of insanity, and the first illustration of an influencing machine, commonly complained of by paranoid patients.

1838 CE

#2291

Illustrations of the elementary forms of disease.

Carswell was Professor of Morbid Anatomy at University College, London, and one of the leading English pathologists of his day. A fine artist, he personally painted 2,000 water-colours of pathological specimens. His g…

1872 CE

#12187

Illustrations of the influence of the mind upon the body in health and disease, designed to elucidate the action of the imagination.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1952 CE

#4672.1

Immune responses in human volunteers upon oral administration of a rodent-adapted strain of poliomyelitis virus.

Successful immunization against poliomyelitis with a living attenuated virus vaccine. With G. A. Jervis and T. W. Norton.

1955 CE

#4672.3

Immunization of chimpanzees and human beings with avirulent strains of poliomyelitis virus.

Sabin reported the successful immunization of chimpanzees by oral and I.M. route using the Brunhilde, Mahoney and Leon strains of polio virus. On p. 1055 he reported the experimental results on humans given a "single …

1931 CE

#4670.5

Immunological differences between strains of poliomyelitis virus.

2013 CE

#8100

In the blink of an eye: The deadly story of epidemic meningitis.

1929 CE

#5712

Induction of anesthesia in man by intravenous injection of sodium isoamyl-ethyl barbiturate.

Sodium amytal (Amobarbitol). With J. T. C. McCallum, H. A. Shonle, E. E. Swanson, J. B. Scott, and G. H. A. Clowes.

1937 CE

#4671

Infantile paralysis and cerebral diplegia: Methods used for the restoration of function.