Facets

1858 CE

#1399

Leçons sur la physiologie et la pathologie du système nerveux. 2 vols.

1887 CE

#1417

Leçons sur les fonctions motrices du cerveau.

François-Franck’s studies on the excitability of the cerebral cortex and the localization of function followed work in collaboration with Pitres; Charcot wrote the preface. See also No. 1423.

1876 CE–1880 CE

#4558

Leçons sur les localisations dans les maladies du cerveau.

Charcot is especially notable for his important study of the localization of functions in diseases of the brain. Volume two is entitled Leçons sur les localisations dans les maladies du cerveau et de la mo&euml…

1872 CE–1887 CE

#4546

Leçons sur les maladies du système nerveux faites à La Salpêtrière.

An excellent idea of Charcot’s work is gained by perusal of his Leçons, dealing with his teaching on nervous disorders. In the second volume, pp. 1-72, is a classic account of the anomalies of tabes dorsa…

1872 CE–1887 CE

#4995

Leçons sur les maladies du système nerveux faites à La Salpêtrière. 3 vols.

Charcot’s pioneering research on the application of hypnosis to the psychoneuroses brought this subject to the attention of the scientific community.

1885 CE

#4568

Lectures on the diagnosis of diseases of the brain.

1845 CE

#4929.1

Lehrbuch der ärztlichen Seelenkunde.

Feuchtersleben introduced the terms psychosis, psychiatrics, and psychopathology. The book includes a short history of psychiatry. English translation, Sydenham Society, 1847.

1875 CE

#1748

Lehrbuch der gerichtlichen Psychopathologie.

1846 CE

#4528

Lehrbuch der Nervenkrankheiten des Menschen. Bd. 1.

Romberg inaugurated the modern era in the study of diseases of the nervous system. His Lehrbuch is the first formal treatise in this field. On p. 795 is to be found the original description of “Romberg’s s…

1894 CE

#4582

Lehrbuch der Nervenkrankheiten.

The best edition is the English translation of the 5th German edn., 2 vols., London, 1911.

1879 CE

#4940

Lehrbuch der Psychiatrie auf klinischer Grundlage.

English translation, Philadelphia, 1905.

1899 CE

#4951

Lehrbuch der psychopathologischen Untersuchungsmethoden.

Sommer introduced new methods in psychopathological investigation.

1818 CE

#4926

Lehrbuch der Störungen des Seelenlebens.

Heinroth drew his psychology from the Bible and maintained that mental health was maintained only by piety and that sin engendered madness; for him treatment was by repentance and a return to the fold. English transla…

1989 CE

#9433

Leonard of Bertapaglia: On nerve injuries and skull fractures. Translated with an introduction and commentary by Jules C. Ladenheim.

1894 CE

#4800

Les affections parasyphilitiques.

Fournier, great French venereologist, introduced the concept of “parasyphilis”. He showed statistically the causal relationship of syphilis to paresis and tabes.

1916 CE

#4887

Les blessures des nerfs.

A study of the effect of gunshot wounds on nerves. English translation, London, 1917.

1895 CE

#1423

Les centres moteurs corticaux chez l’homme.

Three papers by Charcot and Pitres in 1877, 1878, and 1883 left no doubt as to the existence of cortical motor centres in man. These were later published in book form (above).

1920 CE

#4721

Les lésions anatomiques de la maladie de Parkinson.

Foix and his colleagues showed that the specific lesion in Parkinson’s disease is in the substantia nigra of the mid-brain.

1930 CE

#5010

Les malades de l’esprit et leurs médecins du XVIe siècle. Les étapes des connaissances psychiatriques de la Renaissance à Pinel.

1885 CE

#4943

Les maladies de la personnalité.

1903 CE

#4954

Les obsessions et la psychasthénie.

Janet was the first to describe psychasthenia.

1930 CE

#5012

Les pionniers de la psychiatrie française avant et après Pinel. 2 vols.

A history of French psychiatry from Fernel to the end of the 19th century, focused around the work of each pioneer. Semelaigne was the great grand-nephew of Pinel.

1899 CE

#11293

Les troubles de la marche dans l'hémiplégie organique étudiés à l'aide du cinématographe.

Between July 1898 and 1902 Romanian neurologist Gheorghe Marinescu (Georges Marinesco) made the world's first documentary films in his clinic in Bucharest. "Marinescu perfected the use of cinematography as a research …

1758 CE

#4617

Lethargus cum impotentia loquelae, tandem convulsivus et lethalis.

1710 CE

#1356

Lettres d’un médecin des hôpitaux du Roy… contient un nouveau système du cerveau, etc.

Theory of contralateral innervation.

1527 CE

#2365

Liber de morbo gallico.

Includes a description of the neurological manifestations of syphilis. Though this work bears the date 1507, Peter Krivatsy, provided evidence that this edition was printed in 1527. See Krivatsy, "Nicola Massa's Liber…

1536 CE

#1536

Liber introductorius anatomiae sive dissectionis corporis humani; in quo quam plurima membra, operationes, & utilitates tam ab antiquis, quam a modernis praetermissa manifestantur.

A practical manual for dissection, showing how to carry out an anatomy from the first incision onwards. Massa based his work on his experience gained from numerous dissections that he had undertaken in the hospital of…

1949 CE

#1930.1

Lithium salts in the treatment of psychotic excitement.

The first clinical trial of lithium.

1864 CE

#4620

Loss of speech: its association with valvular disease of the heart, and with hemiplegia on the right side. Defects of smell. Defects of speech in chorea. Arterial regions in epilepsy.

Jackson studied aphasia for 30 years. He emphasized its psychological aspects and laid the foundation for present knowledge of the condition, but he was ahead of his time and the value of his work was not recognized f…

1912 CE

#4823

Luminal bei Epilepsie.

Introduction of phenobarbitone in the treatment of epilepsy.

2017 CE

#10666

Madhouse: Psychiatry and politics in Cuban history.

2014 CE

#7624

Madness and memory: The discovery of prions- a new biological principle of disease.

Prusiner discovered prions, the agent causing scrapie in sheep and goats, mad cow disease, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.

2008 CE

#12431

Madness to mental illness: A history of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

1992 CE

#8461

Majnūn: The madman in Medieval Islamic society.

1988 CE

#10029

Managing madness: Psychiatry and society in Australia 1788-1980.

2008 CE

#8305

Mania: A short history of bipolar disorder.

1991 CE

#12938

Mapping the brain and its functions: Integrating enabling technologies into neuroscience research. Edited by Constance M. Pechura and Joseph B. Martin. Committee on a National Neural Circuitry Database....

The digital edition is available from nap.edu at this link.

1971 CE

#14298

Marijuana reconsidered.

A cultural classic on the understanding of the marijuana experience, and reform of prohibitions against marijuana use by a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Besides describing marijuana's psychologica…

1996 CE

#9428

Masters of Bedlam: The transformation of the mad-doctoring trade.

1986 CE

#9785

Masters of madness: Social origins of the American psychiatric profession.

1918 CE

#8604

Medical diseases of the war. Second edition

Roughly the first half of this work is on "war neuroses." The second half is on "infective and other disorders," including gas poisoning. Hurst greatly expanded the first section after experience as a neurologist in E…

1812 CE

#4924

Medical inquiries and observations upon the diseases of the mind.

The first American textbook on psychiatry, and, considering the state of that science in Rush’s time, one of the most noteworthy. It underwent four editions.

1817 CE

#7108

Medical jurisprudence as it relates to insanity, according to the laws of England.

The first English work on the forensic aspects of mental illness. Digital facsimile from Wellcome Forensics Collection, Internet Archive, at this link.

1794 CE

#11782

Medicina theologica, ou supplica humilde, feita a todos os senhores confessores e directores, sobre o modo de proceder com seus penitentes na emenda dos peccados, principalmente da lascivia, colera, e bebedice.

The first Portuguese work on psychosomatic medicine. The author was a Brazilian who worked in Portugal. Digital facsimile from Wellcomelibrary.org at this link.

1987 CE

#11643

Medicine, mind, and the double brain: A study in nineteenth-century thought.

1990 CE

#9924

Melancholia and depression: From Hippocratic times to modern times.

1727 CE

#764

Mémoire dans lequel il est démontré que les nerfs intercostaux fournissent des rameaux que portent des espirits dans les yeux.

Discovery of the vasomotor nerves (see also No. 1313).

1727 CE

#1313

Mémoire dans lequel il est démontré que les nerfs intercostaux fournissent des rameaux que portent des esprits dans les yeux.

By cutting the intercostal nerves in the neck, du Petit found that disturbances occurred in the eyes and face of the same side; this disproved earlier views of the cerebral origin of the intercostal nerves.

1853 CE–1854 CE

#4932

Mémoire sur la folie circulaire.

Circular (manic-depressive) insanity first described.

1805 CE

#4674

Mémoire sur la maladie qui a régné à Genève au printemps de 1805.

First definite description of cerebrospinal meningitis. Partial English translation in No. 2241.