Facets

1899 CE

#4801

Paralyse und Tabes bei Eheleuten. Ein Beitrag zur Aetiologie beider Krankheiten.

2013 CE

#10219

Paralysed with fear: The story of polio.

1886 CE

#4570

Paralyses, cerebral, bulbar and spinal.

Bastian was one of the founders of English neurology. He is remembered for “Bastian’s law” (see No. 4577).

1860 CE

#4736

Paralysie musculaire progressive de la langue, du voile du palais et des lévres; affection non encore décrite comme espèce morbide distincte.

First description of chronic progressive bulbar paralysis (“Duchenne’s paralysis”).

1835 CE

#4663

Paralysis in childhood. Four remarkable cases of suddenly induced paralysis in the extremities, occurring in children, without any apparent cerebral or cerebro-spinal lesion.

Important clinical description.

1881 CE

#4564

Paramyoklonus multiplex.

First description of paramyoclonus multiplex, “Friedreich’s disease”.

1765 CE

#1251

Pars quinti nervorum encephali disquisitio anatomica.

The “Gasserian ganglion”, already described by Santorini and others, was named after Johann Ludwig Gasser (fl. 1757-65), Professor of Anatomy at Vienna, by his pupil Hirsch. Also published in Ludwig, C. F.…

1943 CE

#1928.1

Partialsynthese von Alkaloiden vom Typus des Ergobasins.

Synthesis of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD).

1828 CE

#2285.2

Pathological and practical researches on diseases of the brain and spinal cord.

First textbook of neuropathology. Originally published in a series of articles in Edin. med. surg. J., 1818-19, and first collected into book form in the German translation, with appendix, by C. Nasse, Bonn, E. Weber,…

1901 CE

#4761

Pathologisch-anatomischer Beitrag zur Erb’schen Krankheit (Myasthenia gravis).

Weigert noted the connection of myasthenia gravis with hypertrophy of the thymus.

1998 CE

#11079

Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections: Clinical description of the first 50 cases.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Swedo, Leonard, Garvey.... Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS), "an hypothesis that there exists a subset …

1944 CE

#4689.1

Penicillin in the treatment of meningitis.

1861 CE

#4619

Perte de la parole; ramollissement chronique et destruction partielle du lobe antérieur gauche du cerveau.

Broca localized the speech center in the left frontal lobe. He asserted that aphasia was associated with a lesion on the left third frontal convolution of the brain – “Broca’s center”. He was p…

1971 CE

#10857

Peyote: an account of the origins and growth of the Peyote religion.

"The Peyote religion is a medico-religious cult. In considering native American medicines, one must always bear in mind the difference between the aboriginal concept of a medicinal agent and that of our modern Western…

1924 CE

#2086

Phantastica.

The classic of psychoactive drug classification. Lewin established the following categories: Euphorics, Phantastics, Inebriants, Hypnotics, and Excitants. English translation, 1931.

1490 CE

#6949

Philosophia pauperum, sive Isagoge in libros Aristotelis physicorum, de coelo et mundo, de generatione et corruptione, meteororum et de anima.

This edition, chronologically the fourth printed, of Albertus's commentaries on various works of Aristotle, contains the first printed illustration of the brain, showing in profile the three-cell theory of brain funct…

1499 CE

#363.2

Philosophie naturalis compendium.

The last section of this commentary on Aristotle is an illustrated summary of anatomy, the text of which was derived, with some modifications, from medieval manuscripts. The series of eleven woodcuts has been called &…

1890 CE

#1284

Photographic determination of the time-relations of the changes which take place in muscle during the period of so-called ‘latent stimulation.’

Measurement by means of photography, of the speed of the nervous impulse.

1689 CE

#3216

Phthisiologia, seu exercitationes de phthisi.

The first application of the principles of pathology to the study of pulmonary tuberculosis. Morton showed that the formation of tubercles is a necessary part of the development of this lung disease, and pointed out t…

1867 CE

#624

Physiologie des mouvements demontrée à l’aide de l’expérimentation électrique et de l’observation clinique, et applicable à l’étude des paralysies et des déformations.

A monumental work, the result of twenty years’ study of electro-muscular stimulation “to determine the proper action which the muscles possess in life”. The book contains an excellent record of the k…

1863 CE

#1362

Physiologische Studien über die Hemmungsmechanischen für die Reflexthätigkeit des Rückenmarks im Gehirn des Frosches.

Sechenov discovered the cerebral inhibition of spinal reflexes. He was Professor of Physiology at St. Petersburg and Moscow, and the “father of Russian physiology”.

1938 CE

#1248

Physiology of the nervous system.

Includes excellent bibliography.

1992 CE

#10856

Plants of the gods: Their sacred, healing and hallucinogenic powers.

1990 CE

#7073

Portraits of the insane. The case of Dr. Diamond, by Adrienne Burrows and Iwan Schumacher.

Reproduces many of Diamond's photographs of psychiatric patients. Diamond was fascinated by the possible use of photography in the treatment of mental disorders; some of his many photographs depicting the expressions …

1874 CE

#4552

Post-paralytic chorea.

First description.

1480 CE

#8369

Practica, seu Lilium medicinae.

Includes descriptions of plague, tuberculosis, scabies, epilepsy, anthrax, and leprosy. ISTC No. ib00447000.

1842 CE

#4691

Practice of medicine: A treatise on special pathology and therapeutics. 2 vols.

A case of chronic hereditary chorea in adults (“Huntington’s chorea”, see No. 4699) is described on pp. 312-13 of vol. 2. This is in the form of a letter from one of Dunglison's recently graduated st…

1815 CE–1818 CE

#6329

Praktische Abhandlungen über die vorzüglichen Krankheiten des Kindesalters. Vol. 1: Von der hitzigen Gehirnhöhlen-Wassersucht; Vol. 2: Vom inneren chronischen Wasserkopfe....

"In 1818, Leopold Anton Gölis (1765-1827, Austrian physician and pathologist), a paediatrician and dissector in the Institute for the Sick Children of the Poor in Vienna, described the clinical and autopsy findin…

1913 CE

#1641

Preventive medicine and hygiene by Milton J. Rosenau. With chapters on sewage and garbage by George C. Whipple...Vital statistics by Cressy L. Wilbur...The prevention of mental diseases by Thomas W. Salmon.

Digital facsimile of the 1913 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. There were numerous later revised editions.

1846 CE

#4637

Primi cenni sulla corea elettrica.

First description of electric chorea, “Dubini’s chorea”, the myoclonic form of epidemic encephalitis.

2011 CE

#8906

Printing and the brain of man.

Annotated catalogue of an exhibition of rare books in the history of neuroanatomy and neurosurgery from Eugene Flamm's library, including many great classics.

1912 CE

#4717

Progressive lenticular degeneration, a familial nervous disease associated with cirrhosis of the liver.

Classic description of progressive familial hepatolenticular degeneration (“Wilson’s disease”), first described by Frerichs in 1861 (see No. 4693), now considered to be a disorder of copper and cerul…

1953 CE

#1931.1

Propriétés pharmacodynamiques du chlorhydrate de chloro-3 (diméthylamino-3’propyl) -10 phénothiazine (4.560 R.P.).

Chlorpromazine. With J. Foumel, R. Ducrot, M. Kolsky, and P. Koetschet. Chloropromazine was later marketed in the United States as Thorazine.

1931 CE

#4611

Pseudo-Argyll Robertson pupils with absent tendon reflexes; a benign disorder simulating tabes dorsalis.

“Adie’s syndrome”; see also his later paper in Brain, 1932, 55, 98-113. It was earlier reported by J. Strasberger, by A. Saenger and by M. Nonne in Neurol. Zbl., 1902, 21, 738, 837, and 1000. See als…

1940 CE

#13073

Psychiatric nursing technic.

1884 CE

#4942

Psychiatrie. Klinik der Erkrankungen der Vorderhirns.

Meynert, Professor of Neurology at Vienna, made many contributions to the study of the cellular architecture of the brain, and is often considered the founder of cerebral cortex cytoarchitectonics. English translation…

1974 CE

#5019.12

Psychiatry for the poor. 1851 Colney Hatch Asylum: Friem Hospital 1973. A medical and social history.

This is in effect a history of institutional psychiatry in Britain to time of writing.

1963 CE

#5019.4

Psychoanalysis, psychology and literature: A bibliography.

Contains 4,460 references.

1952 CE

#9738

Psychoanalytic explorations in art.

Kris trained as an art historian before becoming a psychoanalyst.

1886 CE

#4944

Psychopathia sexualis; eine klinisch-forensische Studie.

Krafft-Ebing revised the book through 12 editions. Digital facsimile of the first edition from wellcomecollection.org at this link. English translation as Psychopathia sexualis, with special reference to contrary sexu…

2018 CE

#10756

PTSD: A short history.

1936 CE

#7346

Quantitative und qualitative Untersuchungen über den Sympathicusstoff*. Zugleich XIV. Mitteilung über humorale Übertragung der Herznervenwirkung Ausgeführt mit Unterstützung der -Stiftung.

In this paper Loewi proved that the cardioexcitatory neurotransmitter of the sympathetic nerves is adrenaline, or actually noradrenaline.

1894 CE

#12456

Quelques observations expérimentales sur l'influence de l'insomnie absolue.

The first experimental study of sleep deprivation. Manaseina "performed her experimental investigation on 10 puppies (2, 3, or 4 months old), fed by their mothers, by keeping the animals in constant activity. The expe…

1921 CE

#4723

Rapport sur les syndromes parkinsoniens.

Souques recognized the importance of encephalitis lethargica as a cause of Parkinsonism; more than any other neurologist he was responsible for unifying its diverse manifestations.

1931 CE

#4959

Rauwolfia serpentina, a new Indian drug for insanity and high blood pressure.

Introduction of reserpine in the treatment of psychoses.

1936 CE

#1353

Reactions of the normal mammalian muscle to acetylcholine and to eserine.

1994 CE

#12638

Reader in the history of aphasia from [Franz] Gall to [Norman] Geschwind. Edited by Paul Eling.

1951 CE

#9732

Reality and dream: Psychotherapy of a plains Indian.

2017 CE

#9714

Reasoning against madness: Psychiatry and the state in Rio de Janeiro, 1830-1944.

1959 CE

#14242

Receptive fields of single neurones in the cat's striate cortex.

Also: Hubel & Wiesel, Receptive fields, binocular interaction and functional architecture in the cat's visual cortex, J. Physiol., 160, 1962, 106-154. In 1981 Hubel and Wiesel shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physiol…