Entry Nos. 4500–4599

1873 –1877

#4548

Ueber eine eigenthümliche Localisation von Lähmungen im Plexus brachialis.

“Erb’s palsy”, first described by Smellie in 1763 and later by Duchenne (No. 4543).

1874 –1875

#4550

Klinik der Rückenmarks-Krankheiten.

One of Leyden’s best works. He was Professor of Medicine at Berlin, Königsberg, and Strassburg. In vol. 2, p. 65, of the above is given an account of “Leyden’s paralysis”, a form of hemiplegia probably first described…

1874

#4551

Headaches, from heat-stroke, from fevers, after meningitis, from overuse of brain, from eyestrain.

Mitchell drew attention to the importance of eyestrain as a cause of headache.

1874

#4552

Post-paralytic chorea.

First description.

1875

#4553

On rest in the treatment of nervous disease.

First account of the “Weir Mitchell treatment”.

1877

#4554

Fat and blood and how to make them.

Includes full account of Weir Mitchell’s rest cure for nervous disorders.

1877

#4555

The relation of pain to weather, being a study of the natural history of a case of traumatic neuralgia.

First study of the subject.

1875

#4556

Ueber einen wenig bekannten spinalen Symptomencomplex.

“Erb–Charcot disease” (spastic spinal paralysis).

1876 –1878

#4557

Handbuch der Krankheiten des Nervensystems.

Erb was Professor of Neurology at Heidelberg. He gave the original descriptions of several nervous disorders, especially the muscular dystrophies, and was a pioneer in the use of electrotherapy.

1876 –1880

#4558

Leçons sur les localisations dans les maladies du cerveau.

Charcot is especially notable for his important study of the localization of functions in diseases of the brain. Volume two is entitled Leçons sur les localisations dans les maladies du cerveau et de la moëlle épinièr…

1878

#4559

Neuropathologische Beobachtungen.

Bernhardt drew attention to meralgia paraesthetica in the leg (“Bernhardt’s disease”) due to disease of the external cutaneous nerve of the thigh.

1879

#4560

Topische Diagnostik der Gehirnkrankheiten.

On p. 220 is the description of unilateral oculomotor paralysis combined with cerebellar ataxia, “Nothnagel’s syndrome”.

1880

#4561

De la narcolepsie.

Narcolepsy first fully described.

1880

#4562

The diagnosis of diseases of the spinal cord.

Gowers demonstrated the dorsal spinocerebellar tract, “Gowers’s tract”, and introduced the terms myotatic and knee-jerk, which he elicited with the rubber edge of his stethoscope or a percussion hammer.

1881

#4563

Contribution à l’étude clinique de la sciatique.

“Lasègue’s sign” in sciatica. Although discovered by E. C. Lasègue, it was first reported by his pupil Forst.

1881

#4564

Paramyoklonus multiplex.

First description of paramyoclonus multiplex, “Friedreich’s disease”.

1882

#4565

The diseases of the spinal cord.

1884

#4567

Ueber periodisch wiederkehrende Oculomotoriuslähmung.

“Möbius’s disease” – ophthalmoplegic migraine.

1885

#4568

Lectures on the diagnosis of diseases of the brain.

1886 –1888

#4569

A manual of diseases of the nervous system. 2 vols.

Gowers was physician and Professor of Clinical Medicine at University College, London. He especially distinguished himself in the field of neurology, and the above set is his greatest work.Page 365 of vol. 1 includes …

1886

#4570

Paralyses, cerebral, bulbar and spinal.

Bastian was one of the founders of English neurology. He is remembered for “Bastian’s law” (see No. 4577).

1886

#4571

Two cases of associated paralysis of the tongue, soft palate, and vocal cord on the same side.

“Mackenzie’s syndrome”.

1886

#4572

D’un nouveau precédé opératoire applicable au ptosis congénital et au ptosis paralytique.

An operation for congenital and paralytic ptosis was introduced by Panas.

1888

#4573

Sur une affection caractérisée par de l’astasie et de l’abasie.

“Blocq’s disease” – astasia–abasia.

1888

#4574

Intracranial tumours.

1888 –1918

#4575

NOUVELLE Iconographie de la Salpêtriere. 28 vols.

Henry Meige, Richer, and other pupils of Charcot published many valuable studies of the constitutional aspects of nervous diseases in the above work, a series unique in the history of medicine and of great value for t…

1889

#4576

Tremblement avec paralysie croisée du moteur oculaire commun.

“Benedikt’s syndrome”–paralysis of the oculomotor nerve on one side with intensive trembling of the other side. English translation in Wolf, The classical brain stem syndromes, Springfield, Charles CThomas, 1971.

1890

#4577

On the symptomatology of total transverse lesions of the spinal cord, with special reference to the condition of the various reflexes.

“Bastian’s law”, transverse lesion of the cord above the lumbar enlargement results in the abolition of the tendon reflexes of the lower extremities.

1892

#4578

Casuistische Beiträge zur Nervenpathologie. II. Doppelseitige Accessoriuslähmung bei Syringomyelie.

“Schmidt’s syndrome” – a hemiplegia affecting the vocal cord, palate, trapezius, and sternocleidomastoid muscles, due to lesion of the nucleus ambiguus and nucleus accessorius.

1892

#4579

Gesammelte Abhandlungen, edited by A. Westphal. 2 vols.

Westphal was Professor of Psychiatry at Berlin; at this time was common for physicians to practice both psychiatry and neurology. Vol. 1: psychiatry; Vol. 2: neurology.

1893

#4580

Sur la névrite interstitielle hypertrophique et progressive de l’enfance.

First description of hypertrophic progressive interstitial neuritis. “Dejerine–Sottas disease”.

1893

#4581

On disturbances of sensation with especial reference to the pain of visceral disease.

“Head’s areas”, zones of hyperalgesia of skin, associated with visceral disease.

1894

#4582

Lehrbuch der Nervenkrankheiten.

The best edition is the English translation of the 5th German edn., 2 vols., London, 1911.

1896

#4583

Sur le réflexe cutané plantaire dans certaines affections organiques du système nerveux central.

Plantar reflex or Babinski response or Babinski sign.

1896

#4584

A case of circumscribed unilateral, and elective sensory paralysis.

1896

#4585

The physiology and pathology of the cerebral circulation.

1898

#4586

Remarks on the relations of different divisions of the central nervous system to one another and to parts of the body.

1899 –1900

#4587

Neuritis und. Polyneuritis. 2 pts.

In Nothnagel’s Handbuch der speziellen Pathologie und Therapie, XI, Bd. 3, Abt. 3-4.

1900

#4588

Das Krankheitsbild der Apraxie (motorischen Asymbolie) auf Grund eines Falles von einseitiger Apraxie.

First adequate description of apraxia.

1902

#4589

Hémiasynergie, latéropulsion et myosis bulbaires avec hémianesthésie et hémiplégie croisées.

“Babinski-Nageotte syndrome”.

1902

#4590

Traité des maladies de la moëlle épinière.

1902

#4591

Kritik der sogenannten “traumatischen Syringomyelie”.

Traumatic cavity formation in the spinal cord, so well described by Kienböck, is known as “Kienböck’s disease”.

1903

#4592

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

“Cestan–Chenais syndrome”.

1904

#4593

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

Classification of the neuralgias.

1905

#4594

Un caso de parálisis del lado derecho de la laringe y de la lengua, con parálisis del esterno-cleido-mastoidea y trapecio del mismo lado; accompañado de hemiplejia total temporal del lado izquierdo del cuerpo.

“Tapia’s syndrome” – palato-pharyngo-laryngeal hemiplegia.

1910

#4595

The syndrome of sphenopalatine-ganglion neurosis.

“Sluder’s neuralgia” first described.

1911

#4596

Le liquide céphalo-rachidien normal et pathologique, valeur clinique de l’examen chimique: Syndromes humoraux dans les diverses affections

Mestrezat gave the first exact description of the chemical constitution of the cerebrospinal fluid. Also published at Paris, Maloine, 1912. Digital facsimile of the 1912 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.

1914

#4597

Internal hydrocephalus.

Dandy and the pediatrician Blackfan published two papers on the production, circulation, and absorption of CSF in the brain and on the causes and potential treatments of hydrocephalus. Hydrocephalus is the buildup of …

1914

#4598

Sémiologie des affections du système nerveux.

1915

#4599

Diseases of the nervous system.

Sixth edition, 1935.