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1825 CE

#4618

Recherches cliniques propres à démontrer que la perte de la parole correspond à la lésion des lobules antérieurs du cerveau.

Classic account of aphasia. Bouillaud was the first to suggest that injuries of the frontal lobe were a cause of aphasia.

1856 CE

#4813

Recherches expérimentales sur la production d’une affection convulsive épileptiforme, à la suite de lésions de la moëlle épiniére.

Experimental epilepsy (section of sciatic nerve). See also Arch. Physiol. norm. path., 1869, 2, 211-20, 422-38, 496-503; 1870, 3, 153-60.

1854 CE

#1324

Recherches expérimentales sur le grand sympathique et spécialement sur l’influence que la section de ce nerf exerce sur la chaleur animal.

1844 CE

#1264

Recherches expérimentales sur les fonctions du nerf spinal, étudié spécialement dans ses rapports avec le pneumogastrique.

1827 CE

#1395

Recherches expérimentales tendant à prouver que le cervelet préside aux actes de la station et de la progression, et non à l’instinct de la propagation.

Bouillaud identified the anterior lobes as the speech center. Refuting Gall, he showed that the brain controls equilibration, station, and progression. Title of second paper varies. His earlier Traité clinique …

1849 CE

#4732

Recherches faites à l’aide du galvanisme sur l’état de la contractilité et de la sensibilité électro-musculaires dans les paralysies des membres superieures.

“Aran–Duchenne disease”, progressive muscular atrophy, with which the name of Cruveilhier is also associated. A fuller account is included in Duchenne’s Électrisation localisée, 1…

1842 CE

#1397

Recherches physiologiques et cliniques sur le liquide céphalo-rachidien ou cérébro-spinal. 1 vol. and atlas.

“Foramen of Magendie” described.

1823 CE

#1391

Recherches physiques sur les propriétés et les fonctions du système nerveux dans les animaux vertébrés.

Flourens removed the cerebrum and cerebellum in pigeons, showing maintenance of reflexes with loss of cerebration in the former case and disturbance of equilibrium in the latter case. Thus he demonstrated that the cer…

1827 CE

#11126

Recherches sur l’agénésie cérébrale et la paralysie congénitale.

“The first scientific paper on paralysis in children was published in 1827 by Jean Baptiste Cazauvieilh, who […] noted that congenital hemiplegia was associated with cerebral atrophy and differentiated th…

1822 CE

#4795

Recherches sur l’arachnitis chronique, la gastrite et la gastro-entérite chroniques, et la goutte: Considerées comme causes de l'aliénation mentale. Thèse No. 247.

First description of general paresis, or paralytic dementia, general paralysis of the insane, or "maladie de Bayle". This is considered the first demonstation of an organic cause for a "psychiatric" disorder; it was i…

1868 CE

#4739

Recherches sur la paralysie musculaire pseudo-hypertrophique, ou paralysie myo-sclérosique.

“Duchenne muscular dystrophy”. English translation of first portion in Bick, Classics of orthopaedics, 72-75.

1840 CE

#1396.1

Recherches sur la structure de la couche cortical des circonvolutions du cerveau.

Baillarger demonstrated that the cortex is made up of layers and that fibers connect the cortex with the internal white matter. English translation in von Bonin, Some papers on the cerebral cortex, Springfield: Charle…

1851 CE

#1267

Recherches sur la système nerveux.

1863 CE

#1465

Recherches sur la transmission des impressions de tact, de chatouillement, de douleur, de température et de contraction (sens musculaire) dans la moëlle épinière.

Among Brown-Séquard’s best work was his study of the pathways of conduction in the spinal cord.

1865 CE

#1402

Recherches sur le système nerveux cérébro-spinal; sa structure, ses fonctions, et ses maladies. 1 vol. and atlas.

The beginning of knowledge of thalamic function. This work contains Luys’s descriptions of the two structures which bear his name: the subthalamic nucleus and the center median of the thalamus.

1827 CE

#4810

Recherches sur les symptômes et le traitement de l’épilepsie hémiplégique. Thèse [pour le doctorat en médecin] No. 118

First description of hemiplegic epilepsy so well depicted by Jackson (No. 4816), and referred to by Charcot as “Bravais–Jacksonian épilepsie”. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at th…

1850 CE

#4733

Recherches sur une maladie non encore décrite du système musculaire. (Atrophie musculaire progressive).

“Aran–Duchenne disease” (see No. 4732)

1938 CE

#4660

Recovery of the virus of equine encephalomyelitis from the brain of a child.

Western equine encephalitis virus recovered from man.

1930 CE

#1577

Reflex action. A study in the history of physiological psychology.

Reprinted, New York, Hafner, 1964.

1924 CE

#1443

Reflexes in response to stretch (myotatic reflexes).

This investigation of the stretch reflex was of value in elucidating muscle tone and posture.

1953 CE

#12449

Regularly occurring periods of eye motility, and concomitant phenomena, during sleep.

Aserinsky, one of Kleitman's graduate students, decided to hook sleepers up to an early version of an electroencephalogram machine, which scribbled across 1⁄2 mile (800 m) of paper each night. In the process, As…

1789 CE

#4920.2

Remarks and rules set by him in: Regolamento dei Regi Spedali di Santa Maria Nuova & di Bonifazio.

Chiarugi’s regulations for the Bonifazio mental asylum mark the first appearance in print of his landmark reforms in the humane treatment of the mentally ill. Chiarugi was the first to practise the humanitarian …

1869 CE

#4779

Remarks on a case of locomotor ataxy with hydrarthrosis.

An early description of the joint symptoms in tabes dorsalis.

1777 CE–1784 CE

#4517

Remarks on that complaint commonly known under the name of the sick head-ach.

First accurate description of migraine.

1898 CE

#4586

Remarks on the relations of different divisions of the central nervous system to one another and to parts of the body.

1891 CE

#4865

Remarks on the various surgical procedures devised for the relief or cure of trigeminal neuralgia (tic douloureux).

Horsley, with J. Taylor and W. S. Coleman, devised an operation for treatment of trigeminal neuralgia in which the Gasserian ganglion was removed by a temporal approach.

1861 CE

#1400

Remarques sur le siège de la faculté du langage articulé, suivie d’une observation d’aphémie (perte de la parole).

Broca claimed the third left frontal convolution of the brain as the center of articulate speech – a point now disputed. He was first to trephine for a cerebral abscess diagnosed by this theory of localization o…

1890 CE

#4863

Removal of the gasserian ganglion for severe neuralgia.

Gasserian ganglionectomy for trigeminal neuralgia; the patient lived for at least two years.

1917 CE

#2847

Report upon soldiers returned as cases of “disordered action of the heart” (D.A.H.) or “valvular disease of the heart” (V.D.H.).

Medical Research Committee Special Rept. No. 8. Sir Thomas Lewis described as “effort syndrome” the condition of disordered action of the heart known as “Da Costa’s syndrome”.

1827 CE–1831 CE

#2285

Reports of medical cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy. 2 vols. in 3.

Beside's Bright's classic description of chronic non-suppurative nephritis, known eponymically as “Bright’s disease”, the Reports contain numerous other outstanding contributions to general pathology…

1851 CE

#1360

Researches into the structure of the spinal cord.

Clarke made important researches on the spinal cord. He described the nucleus dorsalis. He introduced the method of mounting sections with Canada balsam.

1869 CE

#1404

Researches on the physiology of the cerebellum.

Mitchell, leading American neurologist of his time, performed over 350 experiments upon the cerebellum. He emphasized its co-ordinating function, first postulated by Flourens, and he proposed his “augmentor&rdqu…

1892 CE

#4871

Resection des Trigeminus innerhalb der Schädelhöhle.

Hartley–Krause operation for relief of trigeminal neuralgia (see also No. 4870).

1952 CE

#1931

Reserpin, der sedative Wirkstoff aus Rauwolfia serpentina Benth.

Isolation of reserpine. With E. Schlittler and H. J. Bein.

1949 CE

#4914

Revascularization of the brain through establishment of a cervical arteriovenous fistula. Effects in children with mental retardation and convulsive disorders.

With C. F. McKhann and W. D. Belnap.

1906 CE

#4630

Révision de la question de l’aphasie; la troisième circonvolution frontale gauche ne joue aucun rôle spécial dans la fonction du langage.

Marie disputed Broca’s claim that the third left frontal convolution of the brain is the speech center. He classified aphasia into three groups: anarthria (defects of articulation), Broca’s (motor) aphasia…

1803 CE

#4923

Rhapsodieen über die Anwendung der psychischen Curmethode auf Geisteszerrüttungen.

The versatile Reil, physician and physiologist, was an early advocate of humane treatment for the insane. He was instrumental in the establishment of the first journal devoted to mental disease – the Magazin f&u…

1470 CE

#13696

Rhetorica ad C. Herennium.

First description of the "method of loci," the memory technique as known as the "memory palace." Because of its wide use during the Middle Ages this text survives in hundreds of medieval manuscripts. Fourteen printed …

1767 CE

#2103

Ricerche fisiche sopra il veleno della vipera.

The starting point of modern investigations of serpent venoms and their antidotes. This work also includes Fontana’s description of the ciliary canal in the eye of an ox. This structure does not appear in the hu…

1922 CE

#4605.2

Right-sided hemi-hypertrophy resulting from right-sided congenital spastic hemiplegia, with a morbid condition of the left side of the brain, revealed by radiograms.

Sturge–Weber syndrome (see No. 4560.1).

1954 CE

#7981

Ritalin, a new synthetic compound with specific analeptic components.

The authors identified Methylphenidate as a stimulant. It is sold under the trade name Ritalin, and other names.

1912 CE

#4596.1

Röntgen-diagnostik der Erkrankungen des Kopfes.

A fundamental work on radiological examination of the skull. English translation, St. Louis, 1918.

1919 CE

#4603

Röntgenography of the brain after the injection of air into the spinal canal.

Introduction of pneumoencephalography.

2014 CE

#11321

Rum maniacs: Alcoholic insanity in the Early American Republic.

1936 CE

#10640

Rumination number. Historical notes on rumination in man. The first historical monograph on the subject.

The first historical monograph on rumination syndrome or merycism.

1934 CE

#4435

Rupture of the intervertebral disc with involvement of the spinal canal.

Demonstration of the causal role of intervertebral disc herniation in sciatica.

1809 CE

#1388

Saggio sopra la vera struttura del cervello dell’uomo e degl’animali e sopra le funzioni del sistema nervoso.

Includes description of “Rolando’s substance”, “tubercle”, and “funiculus”. Rolando described ablation experiments for brain localization similar to Flourens (No. 1391). They …

1686 CE

#4514

Schedula monitoria de novae febris ingressu.

Includes (pp. 25-28) his classic description of chorea minor (“Sydenham’s chorea”). Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1939, 4, 327-53. In the Sydenham Society translation (see No. 64) the passage occurs in…

1934 CE

#4960

Schizophreniebehandlung mittels Insulin-Hypoglykämie sowie hypoglykämischer Schocks.

Insulin shock therapy of schizophrenia. Sakel wrote several subsequent papers on this subject in the same journal. English version in Amer. J. Psychiat., 1937, 93, 829-41.

1925 CE

#4896

Section of the sensory root of the trigeminal nerve at the pons. Preliminary report of the operative procedure.

Intracranial section for glossopharyngeal neuralgia. For a more detailed account see his paper in Arch. Surg. (Chicago), 1929, 18, 687-734.