Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914): Toxicologist, Neurologist and Novelist

Journal of Medical Biography

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 63-70

  Hawgood, Barbara J ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

nerve injuries; rattlesnake venom; rest cure; Silas Weir Mitchell; writer

Indexed keywords

ART; ARTICLE; HISTORY; LITERATURE; NEUROLOGY; TOXICOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; LITERATURE, MODERN; NEUROLOGY; PORTRAITS; TOXICOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034183560     PISSN: 09677720     EISSN: 17581087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096777200000800201     Document Type: Article

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14. Mitchell SW. Researches upon the venom of the rattlesnake with an investigation of the anatomy and physiology of the organs concerned. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge 1860; 12: 1–156
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17. Mitchell SW Reichert ET. Preliminary report on the venoms of serpents. Med News Phila 1883; 42: 469–72
18. Mitchell SW Reichert ET. Researches upon the venoms of poisonous serpents. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge 1886; 26: 1–186
19. Mitchell SW. The Medical Department in the Civil War. JAMA 1914; 62: 1445–50
20. Duchenne de Boulogne. De l’électrisation localisée et de son application à la physiologie, à la pathologie et à la thérapeutique. Paris: J-B Baillière, 1855
21. Mitchell SW Morehouse GR Keen WW. Gunshot Wounds and other Injuries of Nerves. Philadelphia: JB Lippincott & Co., 1864: 146–57
22. McHenry LC Jr. Introduction to the Dover edition of Injuries of Nerves and their Consequences. New York: Dover Publications, 1965: ix–xxii. This biography includes a critical account of the work of Mitchell related to war injuries
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24. Mitchell JK. Remote Consequences of Injuries of Nerves and Their Treatment. Philadelphia: Lea Brothers & Co., 1895
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28. Mitchell SW. The Autobiography of a Quack and Other Stories. London: Macmillan, 1901
29. Bailey P. Silas Weir Mitchell. In: Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Science. New York: Columbia University Press, 1958: vol. 32, pp. 34–53. A scientific bibliography (168 citations) is appended
30. Mitchell SW. Researches on the physiology of the cerebellum. Am J Med Sci. 1869; 57: 320–38
31. Sherrington CS. The cerebellum. In: Schäfer EA, Ed. Textbook of Physiology. Edinburgh: Young J Pentland, 1900: vol. 2, p. 895
32. Burr AR (The cerebellum ref. 4):139–40
33. Mitchell SW. On the use of bromide of lithium. Am J Med Sci. 1870; 60: 443–5
34. Mitchell SW. Wear and Tear or Hints for the Overworked (5th ed), thoroughly revised. Philadelphia: JB Lippincott & Co., 1887: 21. The first edition was published in 1873; the fifth edition was reprinted in the series Mental Illness and Social Policy. The American Experience. New York: Arno Press Inc., 1973
35. Mitchell SW. Rest in nervous disease: its use and abuse. In: Seguin EC, Ed. A Series of Clinical LectuRes. New York: Putnam's Sons, 1876: vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 83–102
36. Mitchell SW. Fat and Blood, and How to Make Them. Philadelphia: JB Lippincott & Co., 1877: 7–8
37. Playfair WS. The Systematic Treatment of Nerve Prostration and Hysteria. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1883: 13
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39. Playfair WS ((The Systematic Treatment of Nerve Prostration and Hysteria ref. 36) ref. 37):63
40. The title became Fat and Blood: An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria (3rd edn). Philadelphia: JB Lippincott & Co., 1884
41. Mitchell SW Lewis MJ. The tendon-jerk and the muscle-jerk in disease, especially in posterior sclerosis. Am J Med Sci. 1886; 92: 363–72
42. Burr AR (The tendon-jerk and the muscle-jerk in disease, especially in posterior sclerosis ref. 4):189–90
43. Mitchell SW. Commemorative address. Centennial anniversary of the Institution of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Trans Coll Physician Phila 1887; centennial volume: 305–34
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