Facets

1903 CE

#4645

Inflammations meningées avec réactions chromatique, fibrineuse et cytologique du liquid cephalo-rachidien.

“Froin’s syndrome” – a coagulation of the cerebrospinal fluid.

1852 CE

#1320

Influence du grand sympathique sur la sensibilité et sur la calorification.

Bernard discovered the existence of vasomotor nerves.

1911 CE

#4384

Injury of the spinal cord due to rupture of an intervertebral disc during muscular effort.

Report of a case of “sciatica” due to rupture of an intervertebral disc.

1908 CE

#8246

Insanity in India: Its symptoms and diagnosis; with reference to the relation of crime and insanity.

Includes considerable discussion of the psychoactive effects of cannabis. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1641 CE

#1377.3

Institutiones anatomicae, novis recentiorum opinionibus & observationibus, quarum innumerae hactenus editae non sunt, figurisque auctae ab auctoris filio Thoma Bartholino.

In this revision of his father’s anatomical treatise, Thomas Bartholin included the first depiction of the fissure of Sylvius, the lateral cerebral fissure, and the only part of the surface of the cerebral hemis…

1996 CE

#13399

Institutions of confinement: Hospitals, asylums, and prisons in Western Europe and North America, 1500-1950. Edited by Norbert Finzsch and Robert Jütte.

1914 CE

#4597

Internal hydrocephalus.

Dandy and the pediatrician Blackfan published two papers on the production, circulation, and absorption of CSF in the brain and on the causes and potential treatments of hydrocephalus. Hydrocephalus is the buildup of …

1930 CE

#2919

Intracranial aneurysms.

Temporal arteritis is first described in Case 24 (p. 532). Schmidt’s paper also appeared in Bibl. Laeger, 1930, 122,269 (Case 24, p. 320). Temporal arteritis was also described as a new condition by B. T. Horton…

1892 CE

#4870

Intracranial neurectomy of the second and third divisions of the fifth nerve.

Hartley originated the operation of intracranial neurectomy for trigeminal neuralgia.

1888 CE

#4574

Intracranial tumours.

1994 CE

#10500

Inventing the feeble mind: A history of mental retardation in the United States.

2004 CE

#8068

Invention of hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière.

See No. 4558.1

1874 CE

#1406.1

Investigations into the functions of the human brain.

Bartholow confirmed in man the findings of Fritsch and Hitzig (No. 1405) that electrical stimulus of the cortex on one side stimulated muscles on the other side of the body.

1944 CE

#4615

Iodinated organic compounds as contrast media for radiographic diagnoses. III. Experimental and clinical myelography with ethyl iodophenylundecylate (pantopaque).

Introduction of “pantopaque” for diagnosis of cerebral tumors. With C. E. Dungan, J. B. Furst, J. T. Plati, S. W. Smith, A. P. Darling, and E. C. Wolcott.

1522 CE

#368

Isagoge breves perlucide ac uberime in anatomiam humani corporis a communi medicorum academia usitatam.

One year after publishing his Commentary on Mondino, Giacomo Berengario da Carpi issued an abbreviated version or Isagoge, with most of the same woodcuts. This was the book by which Berengario's contributions to anato…

1829 CE

#12679

Istoria di un sonnambulismo, con alcune riflessioni sopra questo fenomeno, e sul sonno; letta nella pubblica adunanza dell’Accademia Labronica.

This report on sleepwalking concerned Palloni’s treatment of a forty-year old peasant who for nine years would sleepwalk—often going into the fields, carrying his tools along, then returning later to the b…

1996 CE

#14219

Jean Fery: A sixteen century case of dissociative identity disorder.

Abstract: "This discussion reinterprets a sixteenth-century case of possession and exorcism ashttps://archive.org/details/lapossessiondeje00bour/page/n7/mode/2up Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), formerly known as…

1884 CE

#4848

Jumping, latah, myriachit.

Latah, motor incoordination associated with echolalia and coprolalia, is named “Gilles de la Tourette’s disease” after his classic description of it.

1893 CE

#7019

Kanyaku maou seibun kenkyuu seiseki (zoku).

Nagai synthesized methamphetamine from ephedrine.

1861 CE

#4693

Klinik der Leberkrankheiten. Bd. 2.

Pp. 62-64: First description of progressive familial hepatolenticular degeneration (“Kinnier Wilson’s disease”; see No. 4717).

1874 CE–1875 CE

#4550

Klinik der Rückenmarks-Krankheiten.

One of Leyden’s best works. He was Professor of Medicine at Berlin, Königsberg, and Strassburg. In vol. 2, p. 65, of the above is given an account of “Leyden’s paralysis”, a form of hemipl…

1875 CE–1876 CE

#4743

Klinik der Rückenmarks-Krankheiten. Bd. 2, pt.2.

First description of myotonia congenita occurs on p. 550.

1846 CE

#4527

Klinische Ergebnisse.

Includes (p. 75) a classic description of facial hemiatrophy – “Romberg’s disease”.

1890 CE–1930 CE

#4632

Klinische und anatomische Beiträge zur Pathologie des Gehirns. 8 pts. in 10 vols.

An important summary of the knowledge concerning aphasia appears in vols. 5-7.

1907 CE

#4714.1

Klinische und anatomische Untersuchungen über eine besondere Form von familiärer amaurotische Idiotie.

See No. 4713.1. Reprinted in Histologische und Histopathologische Arbeiten über die Grosshirnrinde (Nissl), 1908, 2, 193-213.

1902 CE

#4591

Kritik der sogenannten “traumatischen Syringomyelie”.

Traumatic cavity formation in the spinal cord, so well described by Kienböck, is known as “Kienböck’s disease”.

2015 CE

#10424

L'invention de l'hystérie au temps des lumières (1670–1820).

Translated into English as On hysteria: The invention of a medical category between 1670 and 1820 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015).

1942 CE

#4614.2

L’acropathie ulcéro-mutilante familiale.

“Thévenard’s disease” – hereditary sensory neuropathy, earlier reported by Auguste Nélaton: Affection singulière des os du pied. Gaz. Hôp. Paris, 1852, 4, 13.

1912 CE

#4716.1

L’atrophie olivo-ponto-cérébelleuse.

Olivo-ponto-cerebellar atrophy. English translation in Rottenberg & Hochberg, No. 5019.14, pp. 219-51.

1889 CE

#4976.1

L’Automatisme psychologique.

Janet argued that “hysterical symptoms are due to subconscious fixed ideas that have been isolated and usually forgotten. Split off from consciousness – ‘dissociated’ – they embody painfu…

1903 CE–1904 CE

#2003.2

L’électrisation cérébrale.

Leduc reported the effects of a galvanic current on the brain. His work led the way to electric convulsion therapy, introduced by Carletti and Bini (No. 4962).

1927 CE

#4610

L’encéphalographie artérielle, son importance dans la localisation des tumeurs cérébrales.

Introduction of cerebral arteriography. See also Presse méd., 1928, 36, 689-93. English translation in J. Neurosurg., 1964, 21, 145-56.

1994 CE

#9482

La bataille de cent ans: Histoire de la psychanalyse en France, 1, 1885-1939. 2, 1925-1985. 2 vols.

1981 CE

#5019.19

La maladie de l’âme. Étude sur la relation de l’âme et du corps dans la tradition médico-philosophique antique.

1920 CE

#4891

La meccanica del cervello e la funzione dei lobi frontale.

Bianchi showed that bilateral destruction of the frontal lobes caused character changes, a finding put to practical use by Egas Moniz and others. English translation, Edinburgh, 1922.

1923 CE

#4990

La médecine psychologique.

Janet’s summary of his work with hypnosis, including one of the most detailed histories of hypnosis available. English translation, as Psychological healing, 2 vols., 1925.

1909 CE

#7343

La Myéloarchitecture du Thalamus du Cercopithèque.

"Ted Jones, in his encyclopedic The Thalamus (1985, p. 27), wrote that this is one of the best descriptive accounts of the thalamus, illustrated with photographic plates as elegant as any being produced today, with su…

1910 CE

#4670.3

La poliomyélite experimental.

Serum from a monkey that had recovered from experimental poliomyelitis was mixed with an emulsion containing active polio virus; it failed to produce paralytic disease when injected into fresh monkeys.

1915 CE

#4386.2

La préhension dans les paralysies du nerf cubital et le signe du pouce.

“Froment’s sign” of ulnar nerve paralysis.

1889 CE

#1419.1

Laboratory notes of technical methods for the nervous system.

Van Gieson’s acid fuchsin and picric acid stain for nerve tissue.

1911 CE

#4596

Le liquide céphalo-rachidien normal et pathologique, valeur clinique de l’examen chimique: Syndromes humoraux dans les diverses affections

Mestrezat gave the first exact description of the chemical constitution of the cerebrospinal fluid. Also published at Paris, Maloine, 1912. Digital facsimile of the 1912 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.

1913 CE

#12447

Le problème physiologique du sommeil.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1866 CE

#4994

Le sommeil et les états analogues considérés sur au point du vue de I’action du moral et de physique.

The substitution of psychotherapy for hypnotic suggestion starts with the work of Liébeault. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1896 CE

#12454

Le sommeil, tiers de notre vie. Pathologie, physiologie, hygiène, psychologie. Traduit de Russe avec l'autorisation de l'auteur par Ernest Jaubert.

Perhaps the first book on the physiology of sleep. The author examines the physiology, pathology, hygiene, and psychology of sleep, including the differences between the waking and sleeping states, the general phenome…

1916 CE

#4719

Le syndrome nerveux de l’espace rétro-parotidien postérieur.

“Villaret’s syndrome”.

1906 CE

#1431

Le syndrome thalamique.

The “thalamic syndrome”, investigations of the effect of localized thalamic injury.

1899 CE

#1574.1

Le système nerveux centrale structure et fonctions. Histoire critique des théories et des doctrines. 2 vols.

Massive history of the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system from ancient Greece to the end of the 19th century, limited in its historical analysis. The second volume is a survey of end of 19th century opinions…

1946 CE

#4727

Le traitement de la maladie de Parkinson par le chlorhydrate de diéthylaminoéthyl-N-thiodiphénylamine (2987 R.P.). Premiers résultats.

Introduction of “diparcol” in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. With D. Boyet and G. Dumont.

1931 CE

#1309

Lebensnerven und Lebenstriebe. 3te. Aufl.

1878 CE

#1276

Leçons sur l’histologie du système nerveux. 2 vols.

Includes his description of the “nodes of Ranvier”, interruptions of the medullary nerve sheaths.