Classic articles of 19th-century American neurologists: A critical review

Journal of the History of the Neurosciences

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 156-173

  Lanska, Douglas J ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Childhood brain tumors; Electrical stimulation of brain; Essential tremor; History of medicine; Jumping Frenchmen of Maine; Lateral medullary syndrome; Neurology; Nucleus of Onuf; Phantom limbs; Spinal anesthesia; Sympathetic nervous system; Tay Sachs disease

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; AGNOSIA; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN NUCLEUS; BRAIN TUMOR; CHILDHOOD CANCER; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; LITERATURE; NEUROLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; PSYCHIATRY; REVIEW; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; TAY SACHS DISEASE; TREMOR; UNITED STATES; WALLENBERG SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BIBLIOMETRICS; HISTORY;

BIBLIOMETRICS; HISTORY OF MEDICINE, 19TH CENT.; HUMAN; NEUROLOGY; UNITED STATES; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS;

EID: 0035988276     PISSN: 0964704X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/jhin.11.2.156.15196     Document Type: Review

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3. Hyperekplexia: Abnormal startle response due to glycine receptor mutations
4. Experiments on a human subject
5. Human vivisections
6. American Neurological Association: Tenth annual meeting
7. Biographical sketch of Doctor James Leonard Coming of New York City, and his recent remarkable discovery of local anaesthesia
8. Dr. Bernard Sachs - His contributions to the science and art of medicine and related topics
9. Experimental investigations into the functions of the human brain
10. The contributions of S. Weir Mitchell (1829-1914): The 100th anniversary of his 1894 address to American psychiatry
11. Dr. Beard's verbal communication
12. Experiments with the "jumpers" or "jumping Frenchmen" of Maine
13. Experiments with the "jumpers" of Maine
14. Versuche über cocainisirung des rückenmarkes
15. "A hollow square of psychological science": American neurologists and psychiatrists in conflict
16. A law of denervation
17. Some remarks on the address delivered to the American Medico-Psychological Association, by S. Weir Mitchell, M.D., May 16, 1894
18. A study of childhood brain tumors based on surgical biopsies from ten North American institutions: Sample description
19. Literature and institutions
20. On the prolongation of the anaesthetic effects of the hydrochlorate of cocaine when subcutaneously injected. An experimental study
21. Spinal anaesthesia and local medication of the cord
22. The painless production of local anesthesia, and its applicability in the treatment of certain painful nervous affections. A new method
23. Prolonged local anaesthetization by incarceration of the anaesthetic fluid in the field of operation. Employment of cocaine solutions of low percentage
24. On the medication of nerves. A new method
25. The medication of nerves and its application in the treatment of facial neuralgia and other painful nervous affections. Being a new mode of inducing prolonged neural anesthesia by pressure applied directly above the anaesthetic zone, and consequent occlusion of the subjacent capillaries
26. The endermic use of cocaine in the treatment of certain phases of neuralgia
27. A further contribution on local medication of the spinal cord, with cases
28. The localization of remedies about the sensory nerves of the skin. Induction of protracted local anesthesia without mechanical aids
29. Hereditary tremor: A hitherto undescribed form of motor neurosis
30. Experimental researches in cerebral physiology and pathology
31. Bartholow's experiments on the human brain
32. Leaves and needles: The introduction of surgical local anesthesia
33. Ferrier's mistake revisited, or when it comes to the brain, nothing is simple
34. The first lumbar puncture
35. Charles Bell's description of the phantom phenomenon in 1820
36. Issues in American psychiatry reflected in remarks of APA presidents, 1844-1994
37. Les "Sauteurs" du Maine (États-Unis): Par G. Beard
38. Jumping, Latah, Myriachit
39. Étude sur une affection nerveuse caracterisée par de l'incoordination motrice accompagnée de écholalie et de copralalie
40. Der Prioritätsstreit um die Entdeckung der Lumbalanästhesie zwischen August Bier und August Hildebrandt
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44. Corning, cocaine, and local anesthesia
45. James Leonard Corning and the early history of spinal puncture
46. Resolutions on asylums
47. Miryachit: A newly described disease of the nervous system, and its analogues
48. Heinrich Quincke (1842-1922)
49. The pathological anatomy of "a fatal disease of infancy, with symmetrical changes in the region of the yellow spot" (Warren Tay), "amaurotic family idiocy" (Sachs), "infantile cerebral degeneration" (Kingdon and Russell)
50. Pathological report on the eyes of Dr. Hirsch's patient with amaurotic family idiocy
51. William Stewart Halsted as revealed in his letters
52. Analgesia, thermic anaesthesia, and ataxia, resulting from foci of softening in the medulla oblongata and cerebellum, due to occlusion of the left inferior posterior cerebellar artery. A study of the course of the sensory and co-ordinating tracts in the medulla oblongata
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54. Infantile cerebral degeneration with symmetrical changes at the macula
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57. The "jumpers" of Maine: A reappraisal
58. Gilles de la Tourette and the discovery of Tourette syndrome: Includes a translation of his 1884 article
59. Characteristics and lasting contributions of 19th century American neurologists
60. Preservation of a certain motoneurone group of the sacral cord in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: Its clinical significance
61. History of a singular nervous or paralytic affection attended with anomalous morbid sensations
62. The first spinal anesthesia: Who deserves the laurels?
63. In memoriam-William Stewart Halsted
64. Presidential address: Our heritage, our future
65. Joseph Collins: 1866-1950
66. Turner's Lane Hospital
67. Jacksonian epilepsy; trephining; removal of small tumor, and excision of cortex
68. The case of George Dedlow
69. Phantom limbs
70. Neural maladies of stumps
71. Address before the fiftieth annual meeting of the American Medico-Psychological Association, held in Philadelphia, May 16th, 1894
72. The first reported case of electrical stimulation of the human brain
73. Latah
74. Notes on the arrangement and function of the cell groups in the sacral region of the spinal cord
75. On the arrangement and function of the cell groups of the sacral region of the spinal cord in man
76. Experimental researches on the localization of the sympathetic nerve in the spinal cord and brain, and contributions to its physiology
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80. Die lumbalpunktion des hydrocephalus
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90. The cell changes in amaurotic family idiocy
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92. Zur Diagnostik der Herderkrankun-gen in der Brücke und dem verlängerten Mark
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97. The public obligations of the neurologist
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101. A third instance in the same family of symmetrical changes in the region of the yellow spot in each eye of an infant, closely resembling those of embolism
102. A fourth instance of symmetrical changes in the yellow-spot region of an infant, closely resembling those of embolism
103. Three patients with intracranial tuberculomas with unusual features
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106. The correlation of sciences in psychiatric and neurological research
107. The correlation of sciences in the investigation of nervous and mental diseases
108. A case of congenital zonular, grayish white opacity around the fovea
109. The early case for caring for the insane in general hospitals
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111. Anatomischer Befund in einem als "acute Bulbäraffection (Embolie der Art. cerebellar. post. inf. sinistr. ?)" bescreidenen Falle
112. Wallenberg's syndrome
113. Gilles de la Tourette's disease
114. Tuberculomata of brain and cord
115. Wallenberg's syndrome
116. Four cases of tubercular meningitis in which paracentesis of the theca vertebralis was performed for the relief of fluid pressure