History of neurology / volume editors, Stanley Finger, Francois Boller, and Kenneth L. Tyler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Finger, Stanley.

Boller, François.

Tyler, Kenneth L., 1953-

Series:

Handbook of clinical neurology ; 0072-9752 3rd ser., v. 95.

Handbook of clinical neurology ; v. 95 = 3rd ser., v. 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neurology--History.

Neurology.

Nervous system--Diseases.

Nervous system.

Neurology--history.

Nervous System Diseases.

Medical Subjects:

Neurology--history.

Nervous System Diseases.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh ; New York : Elsevier, ©2010.

Language Note:

English.

Contents:

Front Cover; Handbook of Clinical Neurology; Series Editors; Copyright; List of contributors; Contents; Beginnings; Chapter 1: Ancient trepanation; Introduction; EphraIm George Squier and Paul Broca; The Discovery of Neolithic Trepanation; Diagnosing Trepanation; A Temporal and Geographic Survey of Ancient Trepanation; Why did they Trepan?; The Fate of Two Theories; Chapter 2: Mesopotamia; The Measure of Mesopotamia; Mesopotamian Medicine: Basic Tenets; Neurological Symptoms in Mesopotamian Medical Texts; Conclusions; Chapter 3: Neurology in Ancient Egypt; Introduction; Methodology; Sources

Egyptian Physicians and SurgeonsMedical Practice in Ancient Egypt; Neuroanatomy; Symptoms of Neurological Disease; Paleopathology of the Nervous System; Commentary on the Significance of Neurology in Ancient Egypt; Chapter 4: Neurology in the Bible and the Talmud; Introduction; Neurology in the Bible; Neurology in the Talmud; Conclusions; The Greco-Roman world; Introduction; Pre-Hippocratic Concepts: Mythological, Literary and Philosophical Sources; Hippocratic Neurology: The Brain in Health and Disease; Neuroanatomy in Alexandria: New Insights into the Structure of the Nervous System

The Millennial Debate About the ``Regent PartT́́he Synthesis of Ancient Neurosciences in Rome: Galen on the Brain and Nerves; Conclusions; Chapter 6: After Galen: late Antiquity and the Islamic world; Introduction; Late Antiquity: Emergence of Galenism; The Arabic/islamic Period; A Paradigm Shift: Through Developments in the Physics of Light and Vision; Conclusions; Chapter 7: Neurological conditions in the European Middle Ages; Introduction; The Setting; Pathologies of Neurological Conditions; Neurologic Conditions and Social Responses

Chapter 8: The development of neurology and the neurological sciences in the 17th centuryIntroduction; Specific Prerequisites for the Rise of Neurology; How Neurology Came to Be; 1664: Cerebri Anatome; The Book on Convulsive Disorders; De Anima Brutorum: A Textbook of Neurophysiology and Neuropathology; The Pathological Part: Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Disorders; Impact, Reaction, and Partial Survival of Willis's Neurology; Chapter 9: Understanding the nervous system in the 18th century; Introduction; Hollow Nerves And Their Spirits; The Microscope; Some Clever Experiments

The Irritable and Sensitive Nervous SystemLife Forces and Medical Practices; Vibrations and Invisible, Subtle Fluids; Electricity, Medicine, and the Nerve Force; Looking Back; Origins of modern neurology; Chapter 10: The birth of localization theory; Introduction; Swedenborg and His Premonitions; Gall's Organology; Bouillaud and Aubertin; Broca on Localization; The Daxes on Cerebral Dominance; Jackson and the Right Hemisphere; The Motor Cortex; David Ferrier's Impact; Converging Lines of Evidence; Chapter 11: On the use of animal experimentation in the history of neurology; Introduction

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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Other Format:

Print version: History of neurology.

ISBN:

9780444520098

0444520090

0702035416

9780702035418

OCLC:

500570964

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