Facets

1705 CE

#1380

Dissertatio epistolaris ad Lucam Schroeckium de glandulis conglobatis durae meningis humanae.

Includes a description and illustration of the Pacchionian bodies of the arachnoid tissue under the dura, producing by pressure slight depressions (“Pacchionian depressions”). See also Pacchioni’s De…

1778 CE

#1383

Dissertatio inauguralis anatomica de basi encephali et originibus nervorum cranio egredientium libri quinque.

The first accurate enumeration of the 12 cranial nerves, superseding that of Willis (No. 1378). Soemmerring is notable for his accuracy in anatomical illustration. This was his thesis. The same publisher issued an edi…

1887 CE

#4945

Disturbance of psychic activity in alcoholic paralysis.

“Korsakoff’s psychosis” or syndrome – alcoholic polyneuritis with loss and falsification of memory. A second paper on the subject in Ezhened. klin. Gaz., 1889, 9, 85, 115, 136, is translated in…

1512 CE

#571

Divini Gregorii Nyssae episcopi qui fuit frater Basilii Magni libri octo. I. De homine. II. De anima. III. De elementis. IIII. De viribus animae. V. De voltario etinuoltario. VI. De fato. VII. De libero arbitrio. VIII. De prouidentia.

Nemesius’ De natura hominis, a physiological and psychological study of man, was highly esteemed during the Middle Ages. Nemesius, who wrote in the 4th century CE, was one of the first to propose that mental pro…

1866 CE

#4775

Douleurs fulgurantes de l’ataxie sans incoordination des mouvements; sclérose commençante des cordons postérieurs de la moëlle épinière.

First clinical description of the electric pains in tabes.

1684 CE

#1311

Dr. Willis's practice of physick.

The only complete edition of Willis's works in English, translated by the poet Samuel Pordage. It contains the translations of all his works except his Affectionum quae dicuntur hystericae (1671). The collection inclu…

1905 CE

#4983

Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie.

The work which Freud considered second in importance only to his Die Traumdeutung. Freud’s epochal theory of infantile sexuality linked the forces motivating the development of body and mind from earliest infanc…

1868 CE

#4539

Drunkard’s or alcoholic paraplegia.

Classic account of alcoholic paraplegia.

1852 CE

#4931

Du délire des persécutions.

“Lasègue’s disease” – persecution mania.

1845 CE

#2077.2

Du hachische et de l’aliénation mentale: Études psychologiques.

Moreau's experments may have been the first medical experiments with a psychotropic agent in the treatment of mental illness. English translation by G. J. Barnett as Hashish and mental illness (New York: Raven Press, …

1903 CE

#4592

Du myosis dans certaines lésions bulbaires en foyer (hémiplégie du type Avellis associée au syndrome oculaire sympathique).

“Cestan–Chenais syndrome”.

1864 CE

#622

Du rôle des actions réflexes paralysantes dans le phénomène des sécrétions.

Studies of the “paralytic secretions” occasioned by section of glandular nerves.

1856 CE

#10458

Du suicide et de la folie suicide, considérés dans leur rapports avec la statistique, la médecine et la philosophie.

Pioneering monograph on this subject. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1966 CE

#7716

Écrits.

Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English, translated by Bruce Fink (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2006).

1936 CE

#7919

Effect of Benzedrine sulfate on mood and fatigue in normal and neurotic persons.

Myerson, an American neurologist, psychiatrist, clinician, pathologist, and researcher, funded by Benedrine manufacturer Smith, Kline and French, promoted Benzedrine (i.e. amphetamine) as an anti-depressant, leading t…

1922 CE

#4724

Eigenartige Erkrankung in extrapyramidalen System mit besonderer Beteiligung des Globus pallidus und der Substantia nigra.

The (extrapyramidal) syndrome of Hallervorden and Spatz.

1899 CE

#4681

Ein Fall von Allgemeininfection mit Influenzabacillen.

First description of influenzal meningitis.

1853 CE

#5870

Ein Fall von Hamorrhagie der Netzhaut beider Augen.

Türck was the first to note the correlation of retinal hemorrhage with tumors of the brain.

1866 CE

#13278

Ein Fall von Sprachstörung, anatomisch begründet.

"Carl Wernicke (1848-1905) is traditionally considered the first to have described the features of, and the brain pathology underlying, impaired auditory comprehension and related symptoms. Although Wernicke (1874) cl…

1882 CE

#4677

Ein Krankheitssymptom der acuten Meningitis.

Kernig drew attention to a flexor contracture of the leg on attempting to extend it on the thigh (“Kernig’s sign”), almost always present in cerebrospinal meningitis and an important diagnostic sign.…

1908 CE

#4716

Eine eigentümliche tonische Krampfform mit hysterischen Symptomen.

First description of torsion-spasm, dystonia musculorum deformans; also called “Ziehen–Oppenheim disease” following reports of cases by these writers in Neurol. Zbl., 1911, 30, 109, 1090.

1910 CE

#6608.1

Eine Kindheitserinnerung des Leonardo da Vinci.

The first psychoanalytic investigation in art.

1909 CE

#3895

Eine neue Methode der endonasalen operation von Hypophysentumoren.

Hirsch first demonstrated the transnasal transseptal exposure of the sphenoid sinus and pituitary gland in a cadaveric specimen in front of the medical society of Vienna.

1955 CE

#4771.1

Eine neue x-chromosomale Muskeldystrophie.

Becker-type muscular dystrophy.

1901 CE

#4952

Einführung in die psychiatrische Klinik.

Kraepelin evolved a new classification of insanity. He introduced the concepts “dementia praecox” and “manic-depressive insanity”. (Regarding the latter, see also No. 4932.)

1927 CE

#4990.1

Einführung in die Technik der Kinderanalyse.

Daughter of Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud made the psychoanalysis of children her own province. This is probably the most famous classic of child analysis.

1887 CE

#1368.2

Einige hirnanatomische Betrachtungen und Ergebnisse.

Independently of His, Forel formulated the neuron theory.

1899 CE

#1428

Einleitung in die vergleichende Gehirnphysiologie und vergleichende Psychologie.

1890 CE

#4667

En epidemi af infantil paralysi.

The epidemic character of poliomyelitis was first noted by Medin. The disease is also known as “Heine–Medin disease” from the descriptions given by these two writers (see also No. 4664). German versi…

1917 CE

#4650

Encephalitis lethargica.

Economo’s classic description of epidemic encephalitis (“von Economo’s disease”) was published on 10 May 1917; see No. 4649.

1933 CE

#4656

Encephalitis: studies on experimental transmission.

Isolation of the St. Louis encephalitis virus. With C. Armstrong and H. A. McCordock.

1941 CE

#4614.1

Encephalography.

Robertson improved the accuracy and reliability of encephalography and reduced its discomforts.

1941 CE

#4910.1

Epilepsy and cerebral localization: A study of the mechanism, treatment and prevention of epileptic seizures.

Penfield’s most widely recognized contribution was the gradual development of cortical excision as an accepted and valuable method of treating medically refractory focal epilepsy. See also No. 4914.2.

1881 CE

#4818

Epilepsy and other chronic convulsive diseases.

Gowers left a classic account of epilepsy, a book which today is still one of the most important on the subject. He was first to note the tetanic nature of the epileptic convulsion.

1954 CE

#4914.2

Epilepsy and the functional anatomy of the human brain.

This comprehensive monograph on the mechanism and surgical treatment of epileptic seizures remains Penfield’s most substantial scientific work. See also No. 4910.1.

1907 CE

#3892

Erfolgreiche Operation eines hypophysen Tumors auf nasalem Wege.

Schloffer’s Operation by the nasal route.

1771 CE

#1357

Erste Gründe einer Physiologie der eigentlichen thierischen Natur thierischer Körper.

Unzer was probably the first to employ the work “reflex” in connection with sensory–motor reactions. T. Laycock translated his book into English for the Sydenham Society in 1851.

1904 CE

#4593

Essai de classification de quelques névralgies faciales par les injections de cocaine loco dolenti.

Classification of the neuralgias.

1830 CE

#13201

Essay on superstition; being an inquiry into the effects of physical influence on the mind, in the production of dreams, visions, ghosts, and other supernatural appearances.

Newnham argued that argued that apparitional experiences, dreams and spiritual visions had a physiological rather than a supernatural basis. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1765 CE

#1250

Essay on the use of the ganglions of the nerves.

See also his supplementary papers on the subject, in Phil. Trans., (1767), 1768, 57, 118-31; (1770), 1771, 60, 30-35. Revised edition in book form, Shrewsbury, 1771.

1857 CE

#1327

Essays on the secretory and the excito-secretory system of nerves.

Campbell saw in the sympathetic a nervous system related to secretion and nutrition and having intimate connexion with the sensory nerves. He coined the ter “excito-secretory” to designate his theory; alth…

1888 CE

#7334

Estructura de los centros nerviosos de las aves.

"The foundational article of modern cellular neuroscience. . . . this is where Cajal first demonstrated with the Golgi method how neurons interact by contact not continuity in the adult central nervous system—in…

1901 CE

#1428.1

Estructura dela corteza cerebral olfativa del hombre y mamíferos.

Ramón y Cajal’s descriptions of the limbic cortex are still the most authoritative. The above work and three shorter papers in the same volume were translated by L.M. Kraft as Studies on the cerebral cort…

1913 CE–1914 CE

#560.1

Estudios sobre la degeneración y regeneración de sistema nervioso.

The most complete work on the subject so far written. Ramón y Cajal, great neuroanatomist and histologist, was for many years in charge of the institute bearing his name at Madrid. He gained the Nobel Prize in …

1890 CE

#4754

Étude clinique sur la maladie de Thomsen (myotonie congénitale).

First description of dystrophia myotonica (“Déléage’s disease”).

1857 CE

#8891

Étude médico-légale sur les attentats aux moeurs.

“Extrait des Annales d’hygiène publique et de médicine légale, 2e série, tome VIII." Tardieu divided his book on "sexual crimes" into three parts: the first deals with indecent …

1860 CE

#8890

Etude médico-légale sur les sévices et mauvais traitements exercés sur des enfants.

The first medical-legal study of child abuse, including sexual abuse, incest, and the "battered child" syndrome. Tardieu described 32 cases in detail, 18 of which resulted in death. Digital facsimile from Google Books…

1895 CE

#4628

Étude sur l’aphasie chez les polyglottes.

Important account of paraphrasia.

1952 CE

#4672

Evaluation of Red Cross gamma globulin as a prophylactic agent for poliomyelitis.

Trial of gamma globulin in the prophylaxis of poliomyelitis. With L. L. Coriell, J. Stokes, P. F. Wehrle, and C. R. Klimt.

1989 CE

#7071

Evolution of the brain: Creation of the self.

A pioneering work on the evolution of the human mind. Eccles synthesized comparative anatomy--especially brain anatomy--with evidence from paleontology and archaeology, and brain physiology (especially the physiology …