Five early accounts of phantom limb in context: Paré Descartes, Lemos, Bell, and Mitchell

Neurosurgery

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 675-686

  Finger, Stanley ^a   Hustwit, Meredith P ^a   Meyerson, Björn ^b   Elias, W Jeffrey ^b   Goodrich, James T ^b   Adams, Christopher B T ^b   Philippon, Jacques H ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Aaron Lemos; Ambroise Par ; Amputation; Charles Bell; Phantom limb; Ren Descartes; Silas Weir Mitchell

Indexed keywords

AGNOSIA; AMPUTATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CULTURAL FACTOR; ILLUSION; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCIENCE; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE;

EID: 0037369928     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000048478.42020.97     Document Type: Review

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