Facets

1778 CE

#1382.2

Mémoire sur les contre-coups dans les lésions de la tête [1768].

“One of the first achievements of modern brain physiology” (Neuburger). Saucerotte carried out surgical experiments on dogs which convinced him that the anterior part of the cerebrum innervated the lower l…

1825 CE

#1392

Mémoire sur un liquide qui se trouve dans le crâne et le canal vertebral de l’homme et des animaux mammifères.

First clear description of the cerebrospinal fluid.

1871 CE–1888 CE

#169

Mémoires d’anthropologie. 5 vols.

Most often remembered for his contributions to neurology, Broca was also among the greatest of the French anthropologists. He originated modern craniometry and in that connection devised many craniometric and craniosc…

1888 CE

#344

Mémoires sur le cerveau de l’homme et des primates publiés avec un introduction et des notes par Le docteur S. Pozzi.

Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1843 CE

#13612

Memorial. To the Legislature of Massachusetts.

Dorothea Dix played an instrumental role in the founding or expansion of more than 30 hospitals for the treatment of the mentally ill in various U.S. states. This was probably the first of her many publications advoca…

1938 CE

#4612

Meningiomas: Their classification, regional behavior, life history, and surgical end results.

Begun in 1915, soon after Cushing's monograph on pituitary disorders, this represents 25 years of work, and is, by common consent, regarded as Cushing’s greatest clinical monograph. Reprint, 2 vols., New York, H…

1975 CE

#9430

Mental disorder in earlier Britain: Exploratory studies.

1983 CE

#9156

Mental illness and American society, 1875-1940.

2018 CE

#11089

Mental illness in ancient medicine: From Celsus to Paul of Aegina. Edited by Chiara Thumiger and Peter Singer.

1973 CE

#9153

Mental institutions in America: Social policy to 1873.

1928 CE

#8796

Mescal: The "divine" plant and its psychological effects. With an introduction by Macdonald Critchley.

The first study of the psychological effects of mescaline.

1921 CE

#2693

Méthode radiographique d’exploration de la cavité épidurale par la lipiodol.

Positive contrast myelography with iodized oil (lipiodol). This paper records the first use of lipiodol in radiology.

1929 CE

#9560

Microscopical atlas of the human brain. Edited by the Royal Academy of Sciences Amsterdam. Plates IV, IV B, VI A , VI B, VII, and VIII.

Very large format. This was a continuation of the Fuse and Monakow atlas begun in 1916 (No. 9559), and interupted by World War I. It appears that only that part, and this continuation were published.

2005 CE

#14259

Microstructure of a spatial map in the entorhinal cortex.

May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser and colleagues discovered grid cells, specialized types of neurons that respond to specific locations in space. They are main components of the brain's GPS. Order of authorship in the …

1970 CE

#9122

Migraine: Evolution of a common disorder.

Revised edition, 1990.

1916 CE

#9559

Mikroskopischer Atlas des menschlichen Gehirns: Die Medulla Oblongata: (das verlängerte Mark).

Very large format. Digital facsimile from Universität Heidelberg at this link.

1865 CE

#1271.1

Mikroskopischische Analyse der Anastomosen der Kopfnerven: gekrönte Beantwortung der von der medizinischen Fakultät zu München im Jahre 1863 ausgesetzten Preisfrage. Mit 43 Steindrucktafeln.

Bischoff demonstrated conclusively that there are many interconnections between the trigeminal, facial, nervus intermedius, acoustico-vestibular complex, glosso-pharyngeal, vagus, spinal-accessory, hypoglossal and the…

2008 CE

#11792

Milestones in the history of aphasia: Theories and protagonists.

1978 CE

#9434

Mind and madness in ancient Greece: The classical roots of modern psychiatry.

2019 CE

#11644

Mind fixers: Psychiatry's troubled search for the biology of mental illness.

1970 CE

#1588.7

Mind, brain and adaptation in the nineteenth century. Cerebral localization and its biological context from Gall to Ferrier.

1961 CE

#10855

Mohave ethnopsychiatry and suicide: The psychiatric knowledge and the psychic disturbances of an Indian tribe.

1974 CE

#14115

Multi-infarct dementia. A cause of mental deterioration in the elderly.

The authors showed that contrary to the prevailing view that most dementias were caused by hardened brain arteries (cerebral atherosclerosis), most were multi-infarct dementias—dementias caused by multiple, smal…

2005 CE

#8729

Multiple sclerosis: The history of a disease.

1977 CE

#9378

Music and the brain. Studies in the neurology of music. Edited by MacDonald Critchley and R. A. Henson.

2014 CE

#12783

Music and the nerves 1700-1900. Edited by James Kennway.

2007 CE

#9132

Musicophilia: Tales of music and the brain.

In a review for The Washington Post, Peter D. Kramer wrote, "In Musicophilia, Sacks turns to the intersection of music and neurology -- music as affliction and music as treatment." Kramer wrote, "Lacking the dynamic t…

1939 CE

#4771

Myasthenia gravis and tumors of the thymic region. Report of a case in which the tumor was removed.

First deliberate treatment of myasthenia gravis by thymectomy, with M. F. Mason, H. J. Morgan, and S. S. Riven.

1932 CE

#4766

Myasthenia gravis: a preliminary report on the effect of treatment with glycine.

Introduction of glycine (glycocoll) in the treatment of myasthenia gravis.

1894 CE

#4581.1

Myelocyste, Transposition von Gewebskeimen und Sympodie.

Amold-Chiari malformation (Chiari II malformation). (see No. 4577.1).

1981 CE

#13554

Mystical Bedlam: Madness, anxiety, and healing in seventeenth-century England.

"Mystical Bedlam explores the social history of insanity of early seventeenth-century England by means of a detailed analysis of the records of Richard Napier, a clergyman and astrological physician, who treated over …

2004 CE

#10759

Narcotic culture: A history of drugs in China.

1671 CE

#4512

Naturae genius, medicorum Celsus, Jason Argonautarum, Bauschius occubuit.

First authentic case of trigeminal neuralgia. It concerned J. L. Bausch, who died from the condition in 1665. The account is to be found in the unpaged part of the volume, starting at sig. d 3 and occupying the two fo…

1918 CE

#4686

Nebennierenapoplexie bei kleinen Kindern.

See No. 4685.

1885 CE

#1470

Neue Thatsachen über die Hautsinnesnerven.

Goldscheider recorded important investigations on the nerves conveying the sensation of temperature and on the nerves of cutaneous sensation

1859 CE

#14214

Neue Untersuchungen über den Bau des Rückenmarks. 2 vols. (Text and atlas.)

Stilling carried out some of the 19th century’s most detailed and precise examinations of the spinal cord, which “laid the foundation for the modern anatomical study of the spinal cord, medulla oblongata, …

1898 CE

#12734

Neue Untersuchungen über die Markbildung in den menschlichen Grosshirnlappen.

Flechsig devided the cytoarchitecture of the human brain into 40 areas.

1851 CE

#998

Neue Versuche über die Beihilfe der Nerven zur Speichelabsonderung.

The innervation of the salivary glands first elucidated.

1837 CE

#1396

Neueste Untersuchungen aus der Nerven-und Hirnanatomie.

Description of the “flask-shaped ganglionic bodies” known as “Purkinje cells”. Reprinted in his Opera Omnia, 1939, 3, 47-9. Also published in Oken’s Isis, 1838, pp. 582-84.

1869 CE

#4843

Neurasthenia, or nervous exhaustion.

“Beard’s disease” (neurasthenia) first described. See also No. 4846.

1899 CE–1900 CE

#4587

Neuritis und. Polyneuritis. 2 pts.

In Nothnagel’s Handbuch der speziellen Pathologie und Therapie, XI, Bd. 3, Abt. 3-4.

2015 CE

#6824

Neuroanatomical terminology: A lexicon of classical origins and historical foundations.

The first global, historically documented, hierarchically organized parts list of the human nervous system. "This defined vocabulary accurately and systematically describes every human nervous system structural featur…

1684 CE

#1379

Neurographia universalis.

Vieussens, professor at Montpellier, was the first to describe the centrum ovale correctly. The publication of the above work threw new light on the subject of the configuration and structure of the brain, spinal cord…

1991 CE

#11791

Neurolinguistics: Historical and theoretical perspectives. Translated by Terence MacNamee.

1977 CE

#5019.14

Neurological classics in modern translation.

Full translations of 20 classic European contributions to 19th and 20th century neurology.

1925 CE

#10763

Neurological fragments, with ‘Biographical Memoir’ and ‘List of Dr. Hughlings Jackson's Published Writings’ by James Taylor.

1844 CE

#806

Neurologische Erlauterungen.

Remak was first to describe the intrinsic ganglia of the heart.

1897 CE

#10020

Neurologische Wandtafeln zum Gebrauch beim klinischen, anatomischen und physiologischen Unterricht.

This set of enormous chromolithographed color wall charts contains probably the largest charts of the brain and nervous system ever published. The two largest measure 5 feet 3 inches by 7 feet 2-5/8 inches! The 13 str…

1940 CE

#4614

Neurology 2 pts. Edited by A.N. Bruce.

Wilson died before this monumental work was completed, and it was edited by A. N. Bruce. It includes a vast amount of history and hundreds of references. Second edition, 1954.

1878 CE

#4559

Neuropathologische Beobachtungen.

Bernhardt drew attention to meralgia paraesthetica in the leg (“Bernhardt’s disease”) due to disease of the external cutaneous nerve of the thigh.